Constituency
507. Balurghat
Community mirrorWest Bengal · India Lok Sabha Election, 2014
IN-BALURGHAT
AITC 38.5%won by 10.1%RSP 28.5%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Rashtriya Sarvajan Party (RSP) lost it to All India Trinamool Congress (AITC), which now leads by 10.1%.
- AITC vote shareAITC went from 43.8% to 38.5% of the vote here (−5.3%).
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 67.0% between them, down from 88.2% — the field split more ways.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
12,54,497
Turnout
84.7%
Valid votes
10,63,053
Margin
1,06,964
10.06%
Candidates
13 contested · winner AITC- 1ARPITA GHOSHAll India Trinamool Congress · AITC4,09,64138.5%
- 2BIMALENDU SARKAR (BIMAL)Rashtriya Sarvajan Party · RSP3,02,67728.5%
- 3BISWAPRIYA ROY CHOUDHURYBharatiya Janata Party · BJP2,23,01421.0%
- 4OM PRAKAS MISHRAIndian National Congress · INC80,7157.6%
- 5None of the AboveNOTA · NOTA11,6911.1%
- 6ABDUS SADEK SARKARAll India United Democratic Front · AIUDF10,5471.0%
- 7SIBEN SARKARIndependent · IND5,6470.5%
- 8SOM HEMRAMJDP · JDP4,7740.4%
- 9RAJEN HANSDABahujan Samaj Party · BSP4,5810.4%
- 10SASTI CHANDRA SARKARR · R3,9690.4%
- 11ISLAM NURALSUCI · SUCI2,6440.2%
- 12RANENDRANATH MALIBMUP · BMUP1,6870.2%
- 13MANAS CHAKRABORTY (GANESH)Communist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM1,4660.1%
Since 2009
Derived- Winner then
- RSP
- Winner now
- AITCflipped
- AITC–RSP swing
- +10.6%
- AITC share
- 43.8% → 38.5%
- RSP share
- 44.4% → 28.5%
- Turnout
- 86.7% → 84.7%