Constituency
69. Karimpur
Community mirrorWest Bengal Assembly Election, 1996
WB-KARIMPUR
CPM 47.6%won by 15.0%INC 32.6%
What changed here
DerivedCommunist Party of India (Marxist) held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 17.9% to 15.0%.
- 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
1,35,754
Margin
20,346
14.99%
Candidates
7 contested · winner CPM- 1CHITTARANJAN BISWASCommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM64,56147.6%
- 2CHIRA RANJAN MANDALIndian National Congress · INC44,21532.6%
- 3NABAKUMAR MONDALBharatiya Janata Party · BJP24,86518.3%
- 4ASUTOSH PALIndependent · IND1,1810.9%
- 5IMAN MONDALIndependent · IND3420.3%
- 6SUDHANSU KUMAR BISWASIndependent · IND2990.2%
- 7TAMESH PALAIICT · AIICT2910.2%
Since 1991
Derived- Winner then
- CPM
- Winner now
- CPM
- CPM–INC swing
- −2.9%
- CPM share
- 47.6% → 47.6%
- INC share
- 29.7% → 32.6%
- Turnout
- — → —