Constituency
45. Malda
Community mirrorWest Bengal Assembly Election, 1996
WB-MALDA
INC 44.7%won by 4.7%CPM 40.0%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Communist Party of India (Marxist) (CPM) lost it to Indian National Congress (INC), which now leads by 4.7%.
- INC vote shareINC went from 37.2% to 44.7% of the vote here (+7.5%).
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 84.6% of the vote between them, up from 77.1% — 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
1,38,862
Margin
6,539
4.71%
Candidates
5 contested · winner INC- 1PHANI BHUSAN ROYIndian National Congress · INC62,04044.7%
- 2SUBHENDU CHOWDHURYCommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM55,50140.0%
- 3DHIRENDRA CHOUDHURYBharatiya Janata Party · BJP20,00514.4%
- 4DINESH SARKARIndependent · IND1,1850.9%
- 5JANAPRIYA SAHAIndependent · IND1310.1%
Since 1991
Derived- Winner then
- CPM
- Winner now
- INCflipped
- INC–CPM swing
- +7.4%
- INC share
- 37.2% → 44.7%
- CPM share
- 39.9% → 40.0%
- Turnout
- — → —