Constituency
75. Krishnagar East
Community mirrorWest Bengal Assembly Election, 1996
WB-KRISHNAGAR-EAST
INC 46.1%won by 2.1%CPM 44.0%
What changed here
DerivedIndian National Congress held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 2.9% to 2.1%.
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 90.1% of the vote between them, up from 78.6% — 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
1,34,513
Margin
2,885
2.14%
Candidates
11 contested · winner INC- 1SIBDAS MUKHERJEEIndian National Congress · INC62,06646.1%
- 2RADHANATH BISWASCommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM59,18144.0%
- 3MONIKA BISWASBharatiya Janata Party · BJP8,6456.4%
- 4CHITTA RANJAN BHOWMICKShiv Sena · SHS1,6551.2%
- 5KAMAL DUTTAIndependent · IND7700.6%
- 6SAMIR BANERJEECpi(M (L)L) · CPIMLL5840.4%
- 7DEBDAS HALDERAMB · AMB4510.3%
- 8BROJEN GHOSHAIICT · AIICT4320.3%
- 9SUBRATA KUMAR BISWASIndependent · IND2930.2%
- 10AMULYA CHAKRABORTYIndependent · IND2670.2%
- 11MADHU SUDAN RAYSamajwadi Andolan Party · SAP1690.1%
Since 1991
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- INC
- INC–CPM swing
- −0.8%
- INC share
- 40.8% → 46.1%
- CPM share
- 37.9% → 44.0%
- Turnout
- — → —