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32. Kaliaganj

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West Bengal Assembly Election, 1996

WB-KALIAGANJ

INC 43.0%won by 3.8%CPM 39.2%

What changed here

Derived

The seat changed hands: Communist Party of India (Marxist) (CPM) lost it to Indian National Congress (INC), which now leads by 3.8%.

  • INC vote shareINC went from 38.3% to 43.0% of the vote here (+4.7%).
  • 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
1,29,072
Margin
4,955
3.84%

Candidates

7 contested · winner INC
  1. 1PRAMATHA NATH RAYIndian National Congress · INC55,50043.0%
  2. 2RAMANI KANTA DEBSARMACommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM50,54539.2%
  3. 3RAMENDRA ROY (UDAY)Bharatiya Janata Party · BJP17,44913.5%
  4. 4JITEN CHOUHANCpi(M (L)L) · CPIMLL3,1042.4%
  5. 5BISNUPADA BARMANIndependent · IND1,4601.1%
  6. 6PACHU DEBSARMAIndependent · IND6780.5%
  7. 7GOURHARI BARMANAMB · AMB3360.3%

Since 1991

Derived
Winner then
CPM
Winner now
INCflipped
INC–CPM swing
+4.4%
INC share
38.3% → 43.0%
CPM share
38.9% → 39.2%
Turnout
— → —
31. Raiganj33. Kushmandi
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