Constituency
49. Kaliachak
Community mirrorWest Bengal Assembly Election, 1996
WB-KALIACHAK
INC 46.5%won by 7.5%CPM 39.0%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Communist Party of India (Marxist) (CPM) lost it to Indian National Congress (INC), which now leads by 7.5%.
- INC vote shareINC went from 39.9% to 46.5% of the vote here (+6.6%).
- 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
1,38,573
Margin
10,348
7.47%
Candidates
9 contested · winner INC- 1ABU HASEM KHAN CHOWDHURYIndian National Congress · INC64,44046.5%
- 2BISWANATH GHOSHCommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM54,09239.0%
- 3GHANASHYAM MONDALBharatiya Janata Party · BJP16,11811.6%
- 4DHIRENDRA NATH SARKARCpi(M (L)L) · CPIMLL1,8781.4%
- 5ABDUS SALAMIndependent · IND9190.7%
- 6NARESH MONDALIndependent · IND3550.3%
- 7JADUNATH MANDALIndependent · IND3470.3%
- 8JIAULIndependent · IND2500.2%
- 9MODAN MOHAN MANDALIndependent · IND1740.1%
Since 1991
Derived- Winner then
- CPM
- Winner now
- INCflipped
- INC–CPM swing
- +9.0%
- INC share
- 39.9% → 46.5%
- CPM share
- 41.4% → 39.0%
- Turnout
- — → —