Constituency
47. Manikchak
Community mirrorWest Bengal Assembly Election, 1996
WB-MANIKCHAK
INC 52.1%won by 9.5%CPM 42.6%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Communist Party of India (Marxist) (CPM) lost it to Indian National Congress (INC), which now leads by 9.5%.
- INC vote shareINC went from 40.5% to 52.1% of the vote here (+11.6%).
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 94.6% of the vote between them, up from 88.2% — 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
1,07,485
Margin
10,188
9.48%
Candidates
7 contested · winner INC- 1RAM PRABESH MONDALIndian National Congress · INC55,95452.1%
- 2SUBODH CHOUDHURICommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM45,76642.6%
- 3PHUL KUMAR GHOSHBharatiya Janata Party · BJP5,0094.7%
- 4SK. SIDDIQUEIndependent · IND3310.3%
- 5SITARAM SINGHAIndependent · IND2490.2%
- 6SAIKH SAIFUDDINIndependent · IND920.1%
- 7PRASUN SARKARIndependent · IND840.1%
Since 1991
Derived- Winner then
- CPM
- Winner now
- INCflipped
- INC–CPM swing
- +16.7%
- INC share
- 40.5% → 52.1%
- CPM share
- 47.7% → 42.6%
- Turnout
- — → —