Elections Archive

GEN · West Bengal

Balurghat

Arpita Ghosh (AITC) won by 1,06,964 votes (10.2%).

Electors
12,54,497
Votes polled
10,63,053
Valid votes
10,51,362
Turnout
84.7%
NOTA
11,691
Polling date
2014-04-24

Margin vs 2014 national median: 10.2% (median 13.8%). Back to West Bengal · 2014 national · Target seats

Seat health

Margin band, turnout swing, NOTA, and history for campaign defence / attack reads.

Knife-edge (<2%)Party held vs 2019
Margin · 2024
0.8%(-2.0%)
Turnout
79.2%(+1.6%)
NOTA
0.6%
Top-2 squeeze
92.7%

Winning margin over time · Balurghat

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Candidates

Candidates · Balurghat 2014
RankCandidatePartyVotesVote share
1Arpita GhoshWinnerAITC4,09,64139.0%
2Bimalendu Sarkar (bimal)RSP3,02,67728.8%
3Biswapriya Roy ChoudhuryBJP2,23,01421.2%
4Om Prakas MishraINC80,7157.7%
5Abdus Sadek SarkarAIUDF10,5471.0%
6Siben SarkarIND5,6470.5%
7Som HemramJDP4,7740.5%
8Rajen HansdaBSP4,5810.4%
9Sasti Chandra SarkarRaJSP3,9690.4%
10Islam NuralSUCI2,6440.3%
11Ranendranath MaliBMUP1,6870.2%
12Manas Chakraborty (ganesh)CPIM1,4660.1%

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