Constituency
35. Gangarampur
Community mirrorWest Bengal Assembly Election, 1996
WB-GANGARAMPUR
CPM 55.6%won by 14.8%BJP 40.9%
What changed here
DerivedCommunist Party of India (Marxist) held the seat; the winning margin widened from 3.7% to 14.8%.
- Runner-up changedSecond place passed from Indian National Congress (INC) to Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP).
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 96.5% of the vote between them, up from 84.2% — 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
1,51,416
Margin
22,337
14.75%
Candidates
6 contested · winner CPM- 1MINATI GHOSHCommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM84,21855.6%
- 2ASHISH MAJUMDARBharatiya Janata Party · BJP61,88140.9%
- 3JIBAN CHAKRAVORTYIndependent · IND3,1462.1%
- 4CHANDAN SEN GUPTAIndependent · IND1,1610.8%
- 5ASIM BAGCHIAIICT · AIICT6650.4%
- 6KALI PADA DASIndependent · IND3450.2%
Since 1991
Derived- Winner then
- CPM
- Winner now
- CPM
- CPM–BJP swing
- −15.0%
- CPM share
- 44.0% → 55.6%
- BJP share
- 14.2% → 40.9%
- Turnout
- — → —