Constituency
9. Tufanganj
Community mirrorWest Bengal Assembly Election, 1996
WB-TUFANGANJ
CPM 54.8%won by 22.1%INC 32.6%
What changed here
DerivedCommunist Party of India (Marxist) held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 30.6% to 22.1%.
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 87.4% of the vote between them, up from 78.4% — 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
1,21,320
Margin
26,853
22.13%
Candidates
6 contested · winner CPM- 1PUSPA CHANDRA DASCommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM66,43654.8%
- 2SACHINDR CHANDRA DASIndian National Congress · INC39,58332.6%
- 3SURENDRA NARAYAN ROY KUNGARBharatiya Janata Party · BJP13,50811.1%
- 4SACHINDRA NATH BARMABahujan Samaj Party · BSP9340.8%
- 5MAHESWAR GAYENSWJP · SWJP5640.5%
- 6MANINDRANATH MANDALIndependent · IND2950.2%
Since 1991
Derived- Winner then
- CPM
- Winner now
- CPM
- CPM–INC swing
- −8.5%
- CPM share
- 54.5% → 54.8%
- INC share
- 23.9% → 32.6%
- Turnout
- — → —