Constituency
60. Domkal
Community mirrorWest Bengal Assembly Election, 1996
WB-DOMKAL
CPM 52.3%won by 10.0%INC 42.3%
What changed here
DerivedCommunist Party of India (Marxist) held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 20.4% to 10.0%.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 3.7% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
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
1,48,654
Margin
14,840
9.98%
Candidates
7 contested · winner CPM- 1ANISUR RAHAMANCommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM77,73652.3%
- 2SADEQUE REZAIndian National Congress · INC62,89642.3%
- 3PRODYOT KUMAR PALBharatiya Janata Party · BJP2,9772.0%
- 4SADER ALI MONDALIndependent · IND2,0491.4%
- 5BAIJWID HOSSAINIndependent · IND1,7151.2%
- 6ASHAB ALI ANSARIMUL · MUL6880.5%
- 7SAIKH MOHAMMAD ABDUR RASHIDPBRML · PBRML5930.4%
Since 1991
Derived- Winner then
- CPM
- Winner now
- CPM
- CPM–INC swing
- −10.4%
- CPM share
- 56.0% → 52.3%
- INC share
- 35.6% → 42.3%
- Turnout
- — → —