Constituency
543. Birbhum
Community mirrorWest Bengal · India Lok Sabha Election, 2009
IN-BIRBHUM
AITC 47.8%won by 6.0%CPM 41.8%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Communist Party of India (Marxist) (CPM) lost it to All India Trinamool Congress (AITC), which now leads by 6.0%.
Boundaries were redrawn between 2004 and 2009 — the comparison is matched by name and is indicative only.
- AITC vote shareAITC went from 0.0% to 47.8% of the vote here (+47.8%).
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 89.6% of the vote between them, up from 76.4% — a tighter two-way contest.
- TurnoutTurnout rose 13.0% to 83.3%.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
12,21,893
Turnout
83.3%
Valid votes
10,17,493
Margin
61,519
6.05%
Candidates
7 contested · winner AITC- 1SATABDI ROYAll India Trinamool Congress · AITC4,86,55347.8%
- 2BRAJA MUKHERJEECommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM4,25,03441.8%
- 3TAPAS MUKHERJEEBharatiya Janata Party · BJP47,0684.6%
- 4ASGAR ALI (GAJLU)Samajwadi Party · SP17,1771.7%
- 5SHIB RATAN SHARMAJharkhand Mukti Morcha · JMM15,9191.6%
- 6RADHESHYAM SINGHBahujan Samaj Party · BSP13,3881.3%
- 7MOULANA NAJRUL HAKAUDF · AUDF12,3541.2%
Since 2004
DerivedConstituency boundaries were redrawn between 2004 and 2009. Matched by name — treat this comparison as indicative only.
- Winner then
- CPM
- Winner now
- AITCflipped
- AITC–CPM swing
- +57.5%
- AITC share
- 0.0% → 47.8%
- CPM share
- 51.4% → 41.8%
- Turnout
- 70.3% → 83.3%