West Bengal assembly election, May 2016

The 16th West Bengal legislative assembly. Polled.

Seats declared

294

148 needed for a majority

Largest party

AITC

211 seats · majority

Candidates

1,961

200 women, 41 elected

Turnout

82.95%

5.47 cr of 6.59 cr

The house

294 seats, each dot one assembly constituency

AITC211
INC44
CPM26
BJP3
RSP3
GOJAM3
AIFB2
IND1
Others1

Biggest movements

Seat change against the previous West Bengal assembly election (2011)

AITC

+27

CPM

-14

AIFB

-9

RSP

-4

BJP

Parties

Ordered by seats won

Party	Won	+/−	Contested	Strike rate	Votes	Share	Share +/−	Deposits lost
AITC All India Trinamool Congress	211	+27	293	45.0%	2,45,64,523	44.91%	+5.98	1
INC Indian National Congress	44	+2	92	40.2%	67,00,938	12.25%	+3.16	4
CPM Communist Party of India (Marxist)	26	-14	152	37.6%	1,08,08,360	19.76%	-10.32	4
BJP Bharatiya Janata Party	3	+3	291	10.2%	55,55,134	10.16%	+6.10	263
RSP Revolutionary Socialist Party	3	-4	19	27.3%	9,11,004	1.67%	-1.30	4
GOJAM GOJAM	3	0	5	32.3%	2,54,626	0.47%	-0.26	2
AIFB AIFB	2	-9	25	32.7%	15,43,764	2.82%	-1.98	2
IND Independent	1	-1	371	1.8%	11,84,047	2.17%	-0.97	359
CPI Communist Party of India	1	-1	11	37.3%	7,91,925	1.45%	-0.39	0
SUCI SUCI	0	-1	182	1.1%	3,65,996	0.67%	+0.23	180
BSP Bahujan Samaj Party	0	0	161	1.0%	3,00,294	0.55%	-0.06	161
DSPP DSPP	0	-1	2	39.1%	1,67,576	0.31%	-0.05	0
NCP Nationalist Congress Party	0	0	1	36.4%	69,898	0.13%	+0.10	0
JKPN JKPN	0	0	2	14.4%	51,099	0.09%	-0.02	1
SHS Shiv Sena	0	—	21	1.2%	49,218	0.09%	—	21
SP Samajwadi Party	0	-1	23	1.1%	46,402	0.09%	-0.66	23
CPI(ML)(L)CPI(ML)(L)	0	0	35	0.7%	45,730	0.08%	-0.07	35
WPOI WPOI	0	—	22	1.1%	43,754	0.08%	—	22
JD(U)JD(U)	0	0	2	12.4%	40,327	0.07%	-0.06	1
JMM Jharkhand Mukti Morcha	0	0	18	1.2%	39,326	0.07%	-0.40	18
BMUP BMUP	0	—	23	0.9%	35,915	0.07%	—	23
AMB AMB	0	0	21	0.8%	32,025	0.06%	+0.04	21
KPPU KPPU	0	—	13	1.2%	31,080	0.06%	—	13
JDP Janta Darbar Party	0	0	16	1.0%	30,350	0.06%	-0.07	16
PDS PDS	0	0	23	0.6%	26,791	0.05%	-0.05	23
IUC IUC	0	0	16	0.6%	19,326	0.04%	0.00	16
BHNP BHNP	0	—	12	0.8%	18,272	0.03%	—	12
AJSUP AJSUP	0	0	12	0.8%	17,257	0.03%	+0.03	12
SDPI Social Democratic Party of India	0	0	8	1.1%	15,888	0.03%	-0.05	8
RJD Rashtriya Janata Dal	0	0	1	14.9%	15,639	0.03%	-0.02	1
IUML Indian Union Muslim League	0	0	10	0.7%	13,468	0.03%	+0.02	10
LJP Lok Janshakti Party	0	0	19	0.4%	13,204	0.02%	+0.02	19
GRAC GRAC	0	—	4	1.9%	12,001	0.02%	—	4
MPOI MPOI	0	—	14	0.4%	11,785	0.02%	—	14
RPIA RPIA	0	0	6	0.6%	6,923	0.01%	0.00	6
NDPOI NDPOI	0	—	4	0.6%	4,771	0.01%	—	4
JHAP JHAP	0	0	2	1.0%	3,855	0.01%	-0.03	2
ABGL ABGL	0	0	1	2.2%	3,855	0.01%	-0.03	1
ABHM ABHM	0	0	4	0.4%	2,781	0.01%	0.00	4
GMM GMM	0	—	2	0.5%	2,220	0.00%	—	2

Vote share is the share of valid votes cast in West Bengal at this election. A party’s national share is a different number and is never mixed with this one. Showing the 40 largest parties. The full list is at /api/elections/west-bengal-2016/parties?limit=500.

Largest victories of May 2016

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Assembly seat	State	Winner	Runner-up	Margin
KESHPUR	West Bengal	AITCSEULI SAHA	CPMRAMESWAR DOLOI	1,01,15149.43%
DOMJUR	West Bengal	AITCRAJIB BANERJEE	INDPROTIMA DUTTA W/O - LATE TAPAN KUMAR DUTTA	1,07,70149.05%
BAHARAMPUR	West Bengal	INCMANOJ CHAKRABORTY	AITCDR. SUJATA BANERJEE	92,27349.03%
NANDIGRAM	West Bengal	AITCADHIKARI SUVENDU	CPIABDUL KABIR SEKH	81,23040.30%
BIJPUR	West Bengal	AITCSUBHRANSHU ROY	CPMDR. RABINDRA NATH MUKHERJEE	47,95438.43%
RAIGANJ	West Bengal	INCMOHIT SENGUPTA	AITCPURNENDU DEY (BABLU)	51,24734.36%
GARBETA	West Bengal	AITCASHIS CHAKRABORTY (NANTI)	CPMSORFORAJ KHAN	61,15732.58%
LALGOLA	West Bengal	INCABU HENA	AITCCHAND MOHAMMAD	53,47532.35%
DARJEELING	West Bengal	GOJAMAMAR SINGH RAI	AITCSARDA RAI SUBBA	49,91331.32%
JHARGRAM	West Bengal	AITCSUKUMAR HANSDA	JKPNCHUNIBALA HANSDA	55,22830.59%

Closest results of May 2016

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Assembly seat	State	Winner	Runner-up	Margin
MURARAI	West Bengal	AITCABDUR RAHAMAN (LITON)	INCALI MORTUZA KHAN	2800.14%
RAINA	West Bengal	AITCNEPAL GHORUI	CPMKHAN BASUDEB	4480.22%
BASIRHAT UTTAR	West Bengal	CPMRAFIKUL ISLAM MONDAL	AITCA.T.M. ABDULLAH (RONY)	4920.23%
TAMLUK	West Bengal	CPIASHOK DINDA	AITCNIRBED RAY	5200.24%
BARJORA	West Bengal	CPMSUJIT CHAKRABORTY	AITCSOHAM CHAKRABORTY	6160.31%
MONTESWAR	West Bengal	AITCSAJAL PANJA	CPMCHAUDHURI MD. HEDAYATULLAH	7060.37%
KATWA	West Bengal	AITCRABINDRANATH CHATTERJEE	INCSHYAMA MAJUMDAR	9110.45%
BISHNUPUR	West Bengal	INCTUSHAR KANTI BHATTACHARYA	AITCSHYAMAPRASAD MUKHERJEE	8910.51%
BANKURA	West Bengal	INCDARIPA SHAMPA	AITCMINATI MISRA	1,0290.52%
RAIDIGHI	West Bengal	AITCDEBASREE ROY	CPMKANTI GANGULY	1,2290.56%