Constituency
19. Kranti
Community mirrorWest Bengal Assembly Election, 1996
WB-KRANTI
CPM 55.8%won by 19.9%INC 35.9%
What changed here
DerivedCommunist Party of India (Marxist) held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 25.1% to 19.9%.
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 91.7% of the vote between them, up from 86.0% — 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
1,10,779
Margin
22,029
19.89%
Candidates
6 contested · winner CPM- 1SUDHAN RAHACommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM61,80355.8%
- 2SUBHAS DASIndian National Congress · INC39,77435.9%
- 3KAMALENDU DEB SHARMABharatiya Janata Party · BJP6,8356.2%
- 4SUBARATA URAOIndependent · IND1,7541.6%
- 5RAMANI MOHAN ROYIndependent · IND4190.4%
- 6CHANDRA SEKHAR CHOUDHURIIndependent · IND1940.2%
Since 1991
Derived- Winner then
- CPM
- Winner now
- CPM
- CPM–INC swing
- −5.2%
- CPM share
- 55.5% → 55.8%
- INC share
- 30.4% → 35.9%
- Turnout
- — → —