The Bhabanipur meeting constituency in West Bengal has but once more made its identify recognized within the nationwide politics because it rescued Mamata Banerjee for the second time within the final 10 years – this time with a file margin and extra votes for the reason that 2011 bypolls.
Mamata on Sunday gained the bypolls from Bhabanipur with a vote margin of 58,835 over her nearest rival from the BJP as she bagged 85,263 votes, the Election Commission information confirmed.
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More Votes Bagged; Record Winning Margin
The TMC has gained all of the meeting elections held in Bhabanipur since 2011, the 12 months when the constituency was shaped after delimitation. TMC’s Subrata Bakshi gained the 2011 polls with 87,903 votes. In the 2021 meeting polls, Sobhandeb Chattopadhyay gained the seat with 73,505 votes. The profitable margin for Subrata Bakshi was practically 50,000 votes, whereas for Sobhandeb Chattopadhyay it was simply 28,719 votes, the information from the Election Commission confirmed.
Mamata has contested the polls from Bhabanipur thrice – 2011 bypoll; 2016 meeting elections and 2021 bypolls. This time, Mamata gained the seat with a file margin of practically 59,000 votes. She bagged the seat in 2011 with a margin of greater than 54,000 votes, whereas in 2016, the margin was 25,301.
In 2011, the Bengal CM had secured 73,635 votes, which was 78 % of the votes polled. In the 2016 meeting polls, she secured 65,520 votes — solely 48 % of the overall votes, the EC information confirmed. This time, she bagged 85,263 or 72 % of the votes.
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The Seat That Keeps Giving
Winning the seat within the bypolls was essential for Mamata to retain her prime submit. The constituency, housing Mamata’s Kalighat residence, has been a stronghold of TMC since its inception.
The information from the Election Commission confirmed that in 2011, the Trinamool gained 184 seats within the West Bengal Assembly elections. The victory was so astounding that it shattered the Left Front’s 34-year reign.
As her occasion gained the bulk in 2011, Mamata turned the primary feminine chief minister of the state. However, she had not contested the polls and was not a part of the meeting. Then sitting MLA Subrata Bakshi, a TMC chief, had vacated Bhabanipur to make method for Mamata. That was the primary time she was elected as an MLA.
The state went for polls in 2016 and Mamata retained her seat. In the 2021 polls, as an alternative of her residence seat, she determined to struggle from Nandigram, a transfer that proved detrimental for her in any other case undefeated victory-run within the Assembly.
She misplaced the Nandigram seat although TMC gained 213 constituencies within the state. Mamata had misplaced to aide-turned-bête noir Suvendu Adhikari by a margin of 1,956 votes.
Just just like the 2011 polls, regardless of not being an MLA, Mamata took oath because the chief minister of the state on May 5. As necessitated by the principles, she needed to be elected to the state meeting earlier than November 5 to retain the chief minister’s submit, and he or she once more turned to her residence seat to retain the CM chair.
In the 2021 meeting polls, the seat was bagged by TMC’s Sobhandeb Chattopadhyay. He vacated the seat in May to make method for Mamata to contest from the seat.
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