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Constituency

41. Kharba

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West Bengal Assembly Election, 1996

WB-KHARBA

INC 47.1%won by 5.3%CPM 41.8%

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 5.3%.

  • INC vote shareINC went from 42.1% to 47.1% of the vote here (+5.0%).
  • 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
1,26,899
Margin
6,730
5.30%

Candidates

7 contested · winner INC
  1. 1MAHBUBUL HOQUEIndian National Congress · INC59,80747.1%
  2. 2NAZMUL HOQUECommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM53,07741.8%
  3. 3SUBHASH KRISHNA GOSWAMIBharatiya Janata Party · BJP10,8128.5%
  4. 4NAJRULCpi(M (L)L) · CPIMLL2,0311.6%
  5. 5SAFIQUL ISLAMIndependent · IND6550.5%
  6. 6BAIDYA NATH DASIndependent · IND2870.2%
  7. 7KASIRUDDIN AHMEDIndependent · IND2300.2%

Since 1991

Derived
Winner then
CPM
Winner now
INCflipped
INC–CPM swing
+7.2%
INC share
42.1% → 47.1%
CPM share
44.0% → 41.8%
Turnout
— → —
40. Gajol42. Harishchandrapur
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