Constituency
83. Haringhata
Community mirrorWest Bengal Assembly Election, 1996
WB-HARINGHATA
CPM 50.1%won by 10.7%INC 39.4%
What changed here
DerivedCommunist Party of India (Marxist) held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 14.2% to 10.7%.
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 89.6% of the vote between them, up from 80.7% — 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
1,68,050
Margin
17,999
10.71%
Candidates
5 contested · winner CPM- 1MILI HIRACommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM84,25150.1%
- 2RATNA GHOSHIndian National Congress · INC66,25239.4%
- 3SUKALYAN ROYBharatiya Janata Party · BJP15,4029.2%
- 4SHYAMAL BASUBahujan Samaj Party · BSP1,5580.9%
- 5BIJOY SAHAIndependent · IND5870.3%
Since 1991
Derived- Winner then
- CPM
- Winner now
- CPM
- CPM–INC swing
- −3.5%
- CPM share
- 47.4% → 50.1%
- INC share
- 33.2% → 39.4%
- Turnout
- — → —