Constituency
88. Ashokenagar
Community mirrorWest Bengal Assembly Election, 1996
WB-ASHOKENAGAR
CPM 45.1%won by 13.5%INC 31.6%
What changed here
DerivedCommunist Party of India (Marxist) held the seat; the winning margin widened from 4.0% to 13.5%.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 76.7% between them, down from 82.6% — the field split more ways.
- Multi-cornered4 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
1,36,984
Margin
18,509
13.51%
Candidates
12 contested · winner CPM- 1NIRODE ROY CHOUDHURYCommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM61,78945.1%
- 2DHIMAN ROYIndian National Congress · INC43,28031.6%
- 3KESHAB BHATTACHARYYAIndependent · IND18,40813.4%
- 4BASUDEB CHANDABharatiya Janata Party · BJP9,6707.1%
- 5ANGSUMALI BARAIBahujan Samaj Party · BSP1,7761.3%
- 6DIPAK DEBNATHIndependent · IND5420.4%
- 7ANIMA BASUShiv Sena · SHS5130.4%
- 8HARIPADA GHOSHIndependent · IND4390.3%
- 9HIRONMOY MUKHERJEEIndependent · IND1900.1%
- 10BIRENDRA DASIndependent · IND1500.1%
- 11RATAN SADHUKHANIndependent · IND1340.1%
- 12BISWAJIT CHAKRABARTYIndependent · IND930.1%
Since 1991
Derived- Winner then
- CPM
- Winner now
- CPM
- CPM–INC swing
- +9.5%
- CPM share
- 43.3% → 45.1%
- INC share
- 39.3% → 31.6%
- Turnout
- — → —