Constituency
16. Nagrakata
Community mirrorWest Bengal Assembly Election, 1996
WB-NAGRAKATA
CPM 58.5%won by 28.6%INC 29.9%
What changed here
DerivedCommunist Party of India (Marxist) held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 38.2% to 28.6%.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 6.6% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
- Safe seatCommunist Party of India (Marxist) won by more than 25 points — a stronghold, not a contest.
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
1,21,803
Margin
34,874
28.63%
Candidates
5 contested · winner CPM- 1CHAITAN MUNDACommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM71,27458.5%
- 2VICTOR LAKRAIndian National Congress · INC36,40029.9%
- 3BADAM SANTHALBharatiya Janata Party · BJP6,0114.9%
- 4BASANT ORAONIndependent · IND5,9854.9%
- 5DASARATH ORAONIndependent · IND2,1331.8%
Since 1991
Derived- Winner then
- CPM
- Winner now
- CPM
- CPM–INC swing
- −9.5%
- CPM share
- 65.1% → 58.5%
- INC share
- 27.0% → 29.9%
- Turnout
- — → —