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24. Kurseong

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West Bengal Assembly Election, 1996

WB-KURSEONG

GNLF 54.2%won by 17.2%CPM 37.0%

What changed here

Derived

The seat changed hands: Independent (IND) lost it to GNLF (GNLF), which now leads by 17.2%.

  • GNLF vote shareGNLF went from 0.0% to 54.2% of the vote here (+54.2%).
  • 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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not in source
Turnout
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not in source
Valid votes
1,09,973
Margin
18,961
17.24%

Candidates

4 contested · winner GNLF
  1. 1SHANTA CHHETRIGNLF · GNLF59,63554.2%
  2. 2TULSI BHATTARAICommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM40,67437.0%
  3. 3MANOJ DEWANABGL · ABGL7,6376.9%
  4. 4PARBATI PRADHAN (PARU RAI)AIICT · AIICT2,0271.8%

Since 1991

Derived
Winner then
IND
Winner now
GNLFflipped
GNLF–CPM swing
+57.3%
GNLF share
0.0% → 54.2%
CPM share
40.1% → 37.0%
Turnout
— → —
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