Constituency
8. Natabari
Community mirrorWest Bengal Assembly Election, 1996
WB-NATABARI
CPM 48.1%won by 8.0%INC 40.1%
What changed here
DerivedCommunist Party of India (Marxist) held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 16.6% to 8.0%.
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 88.2% of the vote between them, up from 79.0% — 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
1,20,172
Margin
9,658
8.04%
Candidates
7 contested · winner CPM- 1SIBENDRA NARAYAN CHOWDHURICommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM57,83048.1%
- 2RABINDRA NATH GHOSHIndian National Congress · INC48,17240.1%
- 3RABINDRA NATH BARMANBharatiya Janata Party · BJP10,5568.8%
- 4NARAYAN CHANDRA DASBahujan Samaj Party · BSP2,1261.8%
- 5ABDUL RAHAMANFBS · FBS8660.7%
- 6ACHHAR UDDIN AHMEDIndependent · IND4730.4%
- 7DALENDRA ROYAMB · AMB1490.1%
Since 1991
Derived- Winner then
- CPM
- Winner now
- CPM
- CPM–INC swing
- −8.6%
- CPM share
- 47.8% → 48.1%
- INC share
- 31.2% → 40.1%
- Turnout
- — → —