Constituency
3. Mathabhanga
Community mirrorWest Bengal Assembly Election, 1996
WB-MATHABHANGA
CPM 52.1%won by 14.1%INC 38.0%
What changed here
DerivedCommunist Party of India (Marxist) held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 17.5% to 14.1%.
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 90.1% of the vote between them, up from 84.2% — a tighter two-way 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
1,22,888
Margin
17,321
14.09%
Candidates
5 contested · winner CPMSince 1991
Derived- Winner then
- CPM
- Winner now
- CPM
- CPM–INC swing
- −3.4%
- CPM share
- 50.9% → 52.1%
- INC share
- 33.4% → 38.0%
- Turnout
- — → —