Constituency
13. Falakata
Community mirrorWest Bengal Assembly Election, 1996
WB-FALAKATA
CPM 53.0%won by 14.3%INC 38.8%
What changed here
DerivedCommunist Party of India (Marxist) held the seat; the winning margin widened from 7.0% to 14.3%.
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 91.8% of the vote between them, up from 85.2% — 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
1,22,073
Margin
17,429
14.28%
Candidates
4 contested · winner CPMSince 1991
Derived- Winner then
- CPM
- Winner now
- CPM
- CPM–INC swing
- +7.3%
- CPM share
- 46.1% → 53.0%
- INC share
- 39.1% → 38.8%
- Turnout
- — → —