Constituency
80. Ranaghat East
Community mirrorWest Bengal Assembly Election, 1996
WB-RANAGHAT-EAST
CPM 48.4%won by 6.4%INC 42.0%
What changed here
DerivedCommunist Party of India (Marxist) held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 8.8% to 6.4%.
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 90.3% of the vote between them, up from 83.3% — 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
1,70,924
Margin
10,973
6.42%
Candidates
7 contested · winner CPM- 1BINAY KRISHNA BISWASCommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM82,67848.4%
- 2AKHIL KUMAR MAJUMDERIndian National Congress · INC71,70542.0%
- 3MANINDRA NATH BALABharatiya Janata Party · BJP13,1747.7%
- 4DHIMAN BISWASBahujan Samaj Party · BSP2,4651.4%
- 5ANANDA MONDALIndependent · IND4190.2%
- 6DIPAK SARKARIndependent · IND2850.2%
- 7BICHITRA BISWASIndependent · IND1980.1%
Since 1991
Derived- Winner then
- CPM
- Winner now
- CPM
- CPM–INC swing
- −2.4%
- CPM share
- 46.0% → 48.4%
- INC share
- 37.2% → 42.0%
- Turnout
- — → —