Constituency
517. Dum Dum
Community mirrorWest Bengal · India Lok Sabha Election, 2014
IN-DUM-DUM
AITC 42.7%won by 13.7%CPM 29.0%
What changed here
DerivedAll India Trinamool Congress held the seat; the winning margin widened from 2.1% to 13.7%.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 4.4% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 71.7% between them, down from 92.0% — the field split more ways.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
14,05,981
Turnout
80.6%
Valid votes
11,32,644
Margin
1,54,934
13.68%
Candidates
10 contested · winner AITC- 1SAUGATA ROYAll India Trinamool Congress · AITC4,83,24442.7%
- 2ASIM KUMAR DASGUPTACommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM3,28,31029.0%
- 3TAPAN SIKDARBharatiya Janata Party · BJP2,54,81922.5%
- 4DHANANJAY (SHAKTI) MOITRAIndian National Congress · INC34,1163.0%
- 5None of the AboveNOTA · NOTA16,8371.5%
- 6ASHOK KUNDUPDS · PDS4,8230.4%
- 7NARENDRA NATH GHOSH (NAREN GHOSH)Bahujan Samaj Party · BSP4,0770.4%
- 8SUKHA RANJAN BANIKIndependent · IND3,2560.3%
- 9SATYABRATA BANDYOPADHYAYR · R1,6180.1%
- 10SIKHA SEN ROYCommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM1,5440.1%
Since 2009
Derived- Winner then
- AITC
- Winner now
- AITC
- AITC–CPM swing
- +11.6%
- AITC share
- 47.0% → 42.7%
- CPM share
- 44.9% → 29.0%
- Turnout
- 80.5% → 80.6%