Constituency
59. Jalangi
Community mirrorWest Bengal Assembly Election, 1996
WB-JALANGI
CPM 53.3%won by 14.2%INC 39.1%
What changed here
DerivedCommunist Party of India (Marxist) held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 30.6% to 14.2%.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 3.0% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 92.4% of the vote between them, up from 82.0% — 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
1,48,823
Margin
21,174
14.23%
Candidates
8 contested · winner CPM- 1UNUS SARKARCommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM79,34853.3%
- 2SAMSUZZOHA BISWASIndian National Congress · INC58,17439.1%
- 3MAHARANJAN SARKARBharatiya Janata Party · BJP7,4955.0%
- 4AHIA MONDALIndependent · IND1,6971.1%
- 5FAZLUL HAQUEPBRML · PBRML9040.6%
- 6SUBODH MONDALIndependent · IND5360.4%
- 7ABDUL MOTINMUL · MUL3660.2%
- 8MADHAB KUMAR SARDARAMB · AMB3030.2%
Since 1991
Derived- Winner then
- CPM
- Winner now
- CPM
- CPM–INC swing
- −16.4%
- CPM share
- 56.3% → 53.3%
- INC share
- 25.7% → 39.1%
- Turnout
- — → —