Constituency
73. Chapra
Community mirrorWest Bengal Assembly Election, 1996
WB-CHAPRA
CPM 49.9%won by 10.1%INC 39.8%
What changed here
DerivedCommunist Party of India (Marxist) held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 25.0% to 10.1%.
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 89.7% of the vote between them, up from 72.8% — a tighter two-way contest.
- 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
1,32,056
Margin
13,296
10.07%
Candidates
8 contested · winner CPM- 1MIR QUASEM MONDALCommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM65,85449.9%
- 2JULFIKAR KHANIndian National Congress · INC52,55839.8%
- 3GHOSH SACHINBharatiya Janata Party · BJP8,0366.1%
- 4BIPUL PRAMANIKCpi(M (L)L) · CPIMLL2,3331.8%
- 5SUBIR SARKARShiv Sena · SHS1,3181.0%
- 6BISWAS KUMUDBahujan Samaj Party · BSP1,3151.0%
- 7SEIKH ANARULIndependent · IND3820.3%
- 8SK. JILANIMUL · MUL2600.2%
Since 1991
Derived- Winner then
- CPM
- Winner now
- CPM
- CPM–INC swing
- −14.9%
- CPM share
- 48.9% → 49.9%
- INC share
- 23.9% → 39.8%
- Turnout
- — → —