Constituency
86. Gaighata
Community mirrorWest Bengal Assembly Election, 1996
WB-GAIGHATA
CPM 48.0%won by 3.5%INC 44.5%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Indian National Congress (INC) lost it to Communist Party of India (Marxist) (CPM), which now leads by 3.5%.
- CPM vote shareCPM went from 43.0% to 48.0% of the vote here (+5.0%).
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 92.5% of the vote between them, up from 86.4% — 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
1,54,235
Margin
5,397
3.50%
Candidates
9 contested · winner CPM- 1MANMATHA ROYCommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM74,02248.0%
- 2PRABIR BANERJEEIndian National Congress · INC68,62544.5%
- 3ARABINDA BISWASBharatiya Janata Party · BJP6,9614.5%
- 4MANINDRA NATH BISWASBahujan Samaj Party · BSP2,8411.8%
- 5SASIKANTA GIRIIndependent · IND5820.4%
- 6KRISHNA PADA DASIndependent · IND4350.3%
- 7RABIN BISWASIndependent · IND3330.2%
- 8BIKASH BISWASIndependent · IND2750.2%
- 9DEBAPRIYA MAJUMDER (DEPU)Independent · IND1610.1%
Since 1991
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- CPMflipped
- CPM–INC swing
- +3.9%
- CPM share
- 43.0% → 48.0%
- INC share
- 43.4% → 44.5%
- Turnout
- — → —