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West Bengal · Assembly Constituency 161 · 2022 by-elections
Ballygunge
Winner — 2022 by-elections
Babul Supriyo
AITC
AITC 50.3%CPM 30.4%8 others 19.3%
Votes
51,199
50.3% share
Winning margin
20,228
19.9% of votes
Total candidates
10
Ballygunge is a safe seat — Babul Supriyo won by 19.9%.
Seat history
All Candidates
10 total| # | Candidate | Party | Votes | Share |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Babul Supriyo |  AITC | 51,199 | 50.3% |
| 2 | Saira Shah Halim | 30,971 | 30.4% | |
| 3 | Keya Ghosh | 13,220 | 13.0% | |
| 4 | Kamruzzaman Choudhury | 5,218 | 5.1% | |
| 5 | Uma Gupta ( Chakraborti ) | BNARP | 316 | 0.3% |
| 6 | Rohit Singh | IND | 277 | 0.3% |
| 7 | Sk Sahabuddin | IND | 228 | 0.2% |
| 8 | Swapan Adhikari | IND | 190 | 0.2% |
| 9 | Mehboob Alam | IND | 137 | 0.1% |
| 10 | Kajal Bhowmick | IND | 79 | 0.1% |
Affidavit details — declared assets, criminal cases and education — aren't available for this seat yet. The results above are complete; only the candidate-affidavit layer is missing.
Low turnout (279th), a comfortable margin, an essentially two-way race.
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How safe is this seat?
SEAT
safe19.9%
MORE COMPETITIVESAFER
mean 19.6% · min 0.6% · max 49.9%
How contested is turnout?
SEAT
89%
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279th of 294How crowded is the field?
SEAT
2.00
fewer partiesmore parties
287th of 294How much NOTA?
SEAT
0.5%
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251st of 294Where does the house stand?
SEAT
1 seats · 1 majority
How did the vote split?
SEAT
2.00EFFECTIVE PARTIES
AITC 50.3%CPM 30.4%BJP 13.0%INC 5.1%OTH 1.2%
Who ran, on record?
SEAT
— NOT YET COMPUTEDA dense, urban district — more literate than the national rate.
Who lives here?
DISTRICTCENSUS 2011
Population
44,96,694
Density
24306 / km²
Sex ratio
908 ♀/1000 ♂
Area
185 km²
SC population5.4%
ST population0.2%
What faith is practised here?
DISTRICTCENSUS 2011 C-01
77%HINDU
Hindu 76.5%Muslim 20.6%Other 2.9%
How developed is it?
DISTRICTCENSUS 2011
Tap water88.1%
Electricity96.2%
Sanitation94.9%
How healthy is it?
DISTRICTNFHS-5 · 2019-21
Institutional births97.5%
Children fully vaccinated80.2%
Children stunted (under 5)▼ LOWER IS BETTER29.6%
Children underweight (under 5)32.9%
Women anaemic (15-49)▼ LOWER IS BETTER58.2%
Women literate87.6%
Women married before 18▼ LOWER IS BETTER16.7%
Clean cooking fuel91.7%
Health insurance21.1%
What's nearby?
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Landmark data: Wikidata (CC0) · ASI (Government of India, official). Images: Wikimedia Commons (individual CC / public-domain licenses, see each file). Map data © OpenStreetMap contributors.