Constituency
40. Gajol
Community mirrorWest Bengal Assembly Election, 1996
WB-GAJOL
CPM 47.6%won by 12.9%INC 34.7%
What changed here
DerivedCommunist Party of India (Marxist) held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 21.1% to 12.9%.
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 82.3% of the vote between them, up from 73.8% — 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
1,17,243
Margin
15,159
12.93%
Candidates
6 contested · winner CPM- 1DEBNATH MURMUCommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM55,81947.6%
- 2BENJAMIN HEMRAMIndian National Congress · INC40,66034.7%
- 3SHYAM MURMUBharatiya Janata Party · BJP18,77816.0%
- 4HOPNA SARENIndependent · IND9960.8%
- 5DATAL MARDICpi(M (L)L) · CPIMLL7030.6%
- 6MANGLU MURMUIndependent · IND2870.2%
Since 1991
Derived- Winner then
- CPM
- Winner now
- CPM
- CPM–INC swing
- −8.1%
- CPM share
- 47.4% → 47.6%
- INC share
- 26.4% → 34.7%
- Turnout
- — → —