Constituency
34. Itahar
Community mirrorWest Bengal Assembly Election, 1996
WB-ITAHAR
CPI 47.0%won by 0.4%INC 46.6%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Indian National Congress (INC) lost it to Communist Party of India (CPI), which now leads by 0.4%.
- CPI vote shareCPI went from 41.0% to 47.0% of the vote here (+6.0%).
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 93.6% of the vote between them, up from 86.8% — a tighter two-way 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
1,26,075
Margin
556
0.44%
Candidates
9 contested · winner CPI- 1SRI KUMAR MUKHERJEECommunist Party of India · CPI59,28047.0%
- 2ABEDIN ZAINALIndian National Congress · INC58,72446.6%
- 3ACHERJEE SAKTIPADABharatiya Janata Party · BJP5,8634.7%
- 4SUPROKASH BALO MAJUMDERIndependent · IND5310.4%
- 5MOSTAFA MOLLACpi(M (L)L) · CPIMLL5070.4%
- 6MANSUR ALIIndependent · IND4530.4%
- 7AH AYENUDDINIndependent · IND3950.3%
- 8SHYAM NARAYAN GHOSHAMB · AMB2050.2%
- 9SUBAL RABIDASIndependent · IND1170.1%
Since 1991
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- CPIflipped
- CPI–INC swing
- +5.2%
- CPI share
- 41.0% → 47.0%
- INC share
- 45.8% → 46.6%
- Turnout
- — → —