Constituency
81. Ranaghat West
Community mirrorWest Bengal Assembly Election, 1996
WB-RANAGHAT-WEST
INC 48.1%won by 2.7%CPM 45.4%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Communist Party of India (Marxist) (CPM) lost it to Indian National Congress (INC), which now leads by 2.7%.
- INC vote shareINC went from 40.2% to 48.1% of the vote here (+7.9%).
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 93.4% of the vote between them, up from 82.8% — a tighter two-way contest.
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
1,54,736
Margin
4,122
2.66%
Candidates
7 contested · winner INC- 1SANKAR SINGHAIndian National Congress · INC74,36048.1%
- 2NAG SOURENDRA NATHCommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM70,23845.4%
- 3CHATTOPADHYAY DILIPBharatiya Janata Party · BJP7,9545.1%
- 4SUNIL BISWASIndependent · IND1,2710.8%
- 5AMAL KRISHNA ROYBahujan Samaj Party · BSP5800.4%
- 6SWAPAN GHOSHIndependent · IND1990.1%
- 7ABANI BHUSAN MITRAIndependent · IND1340.1%
Since 1991
Derived- Winner then
- CPM
- Winner now
- INCflipped
- INC–CPM swing
- +5.1%
- INC share
- 40.2% → 48.1%
- CPM share
- 42.6% → 45.4%
- Turnout
- — → —