Constituency
87. Habra
Community mirrorWest Bengal Assembly Election, 1996
WB-HABRA
CPM 43.7%won by 0.6%INC 43.0%
What changed here
DerivedCommunist Party of India (Marxist) held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 2.5% to 0.6%.
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 86.7% of the vote between them, up from 78.4% — a tighter two-way contest.
- Knife-edgeDecided by 943 votes (0.63%) — among the closest results anywhere.
- 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
1,49,440
Margin
943
0.63%
Candidates
9 contested · winner CPM- 1BAREN BASUCommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM65,25443.7%
- 2ABDUL HAMID MANDALIndian National Congress · INC64,31143.0%
- 3SAMARENDRA CHAKRABARTYBharatiya Janata Party · BJP14,0469.4%
- 4PRONATI BISWASBahujan Samaj Party · BSP2,7221.8%
- 5SANKAR GHOSHIndependent · IND1,3460.9%
- 6TAPAN SAHAShiv Sena · SHS1,1340.8%
- 7BISWAJIT DASIndependent · IND2670.2%
- 8SIRAJUL HOQUEMUL · MUL1970.1%
- 9ATA SAHARAB UDDINIndian National League · INL1630.1%
Since 1991
Derived- Winner then
- CPM
- Winner now
- CPM
- CPM–INC swing
- −1.9%
- CPM share
- 40.5% → 43.7%
- INC share
- 37.9% → 43.0%
- Turnout
- — → —