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Constituency

87. Habra

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West Bengal Assembly Election, 1996

WB-HABRA

CPM 43.7%won by 0.6%INC 43.0%

What changed here

Derived

Communist 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
not in source
Turnout
not in source
Valid votes
1,49,440
Margin
943
0.63%

Since 1991

Derived
Winner then
CPM
Winner now
CPM
CPMINC swing
−1.9%
CPM share
40.5% 43.7%
INC share
37.9% 43.0%
Turnout