Constituency
39. Habibpur
Community mirrorWest Bengal Assembly Election, 1996
WB-HABIBPUR
CPM 48.0%won by 15.5%INC 32.5%
What changed here
DerivedCommunist Party of India (Marxist) held the seat; the winning margin widened from 14.1% to 15.5%.
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 80.5% of the vote between them, up from 74.6% — 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
1,15,195
Margin
17,893
15.53%
Candidates
6 contested · winner CPM- 1JADU HEMBRAMCommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM55,28848.0%
- 2LUCAS HEMBRAMIndian National Congress · INC37,39532.5%
- 3JETHA HEMBRAMBharatiya Janata Party · BJP20,53217.8%
- 4HOPNA MARDIIndependent · IND1,1441.0%
- 5RAPHAEL TUDUIndependent · IND4860.4%
- 6SHIBANANDA SORENIndependent · IND3500.3%
Since 1991
Derived- Winner then
- CPM
- Winner now
- CPM
- CPM–INC swing
- +1.5%
- CPM share
- 44.3% → 48.0%
- INC share
- 30.3% → 32.5%
- Turnout
- — → —