Constituency
2. Sitalkuchi
Community mirrorWest Bengal Assembly Election, 1996
WB-SITALKUCHI
CPM 57.9%won by 25.3%INC 32.6%
What changed here
DerivedCommunist Party of India (Marxist) held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 28.8% to 25.3%.
- Safe seatCommunist Party of India (Marxist) won by more than 25 points — a stronghold, not a contest.
- Multi-cornered3 candidates cleared 5% — a genuinely multi-cornered fight.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
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Turnout
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Valid votes
1,29,489
Margin
32,757
25.30%
Candidates
5 contested · winner CPM- 1SUDHIR PRAMANIKCommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM74,98457.9%
- 2BIRENDRA NARAYAN BARMAIndian National Congress · INC42,22732.6%
- 3HEM CHANDRA BARMANBharatiya Janata Party · BJP10,1277.8%
- 4SUDHA RANJAN ROYFBS · FBS1,6281.3%
- 5SUBODH BARMANAMB · AMB5230.4%
Since 1991
Derived- Winner then
- CPM
- Winner now
- CPM
- CPM–INC swing
- −3.5%
- CPM share
- 58.5% → 57.9%
- INC share
- 29.7% → 32.6%
- Turnout
- — → —