Constituency
77. Nabadwip
Community mirrorWest Bengal Assembly Election, 1996
WB-NABADWIP
CPM 47.5%won by 10.4%INC 37.1%
What changed here
DerivedCommunist Party of India (Marxist) held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 18.1% to 10.4%.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 5.4% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
- 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
1,15,181
Margin
11,975
10.40%
Candidates
3 contested · winner CPM- 1BISWANATH MITRACommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM54,70447.5%
- 2KARTIK CHATTERJEEIndian National Congress · INC42,72937.1%
- 3ATANU BANERJEEBharatiya Janata Party · BJP17,74815.4%
Since 1991
Derived- Winner then
- CPM
- Winner now
- CPM
- CPM–INC swing
- −7.7%
- CPM share
- 52.9% → 47.5%
- INC share
- 34.8% → 37.1%
- Turnout
- — → —