Constituency
46. Englishbazar
Community mirrorWest Bengal Assembly Election, 1996
WB-ENGLISHBAZAR
INC 41.2%won by 8.2%CPM 33.0%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Communist Party of India (Marxist) (CPM) lost it to Indian National Congress (INC), which now leads by 8.2%.
- INC vote shareINC went from 32.5% to 41.2% of the vote here (+8.7%).
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 74.3% of the vote between them, up from 67.3% — 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
1,30,118
Margin
10,661
8.19%
Candidates
7 contested · winner INC- 1GOUTAM CHAKRAVARTTYIndian National Congress · INC53,65341.2%
- 2ASHOK BHATTACHARJYACommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM42,99233.0%
- 3TAPAN SIKDARBharatiya Janata Party · BJP31,96524.6%
- 4MANAB BANERJEEIndependent · IND8530.7%
- 5DHARANIDHAR MONDALIndependent · IND3510.3%
- 6BIMAL KUMAR KUNDUIndependent · IND2400.2%
- 7MD. HASEN ALIIndependent · IND640.0%
Since 1991
Derived- Winner then
- CPM
- Winner now
- INCflipped
- INC–CPM swing
- +10.4%
- INC share
- 32.5% → 41.2%
- CPM share
- 34.7% → 33.0%
- Turnout
- — → —