Constituency
93. Swarupnagar
Community mirrorWest Bengal Assembly Election, 1996
WB-SWARUPNAGAR
CPM 48.0%won by 4.6%INC 43.4%
What changed here
DerivedCommunist Party of India (Marxist) held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 10.5% to 4.6%.
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 91.4% of the vote between them, up from 79.0% — 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
1,27,622
Margin
5,922
4.64%
Candidates
6 contested · winner CPM- 1MOSTAFA BIN QUASSEMCommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM61,27948.0%
- 2DIPTI JANAIndian National Congress · INC55,35743.4%
- 3RAM KRISHNA DEYBharatiya Janata Party · BJP9,1677.2%
- 4JAYANTA SAHAIndependent · IND1,0440.8%
- 5ABU ALAMIndependent · IND5140.4%
- 6BYOMKESH CHAKRABORTYAMB · AMB2610.2%
Since 1991
Derived- Winner then
- CPM
- Winner now
- CPM
- CPM–INC swing
- −5.8%
- CPM share
- 44.8% → 48.0%
- INC share
- 34.3% → 43.4%
- Turnout
- — → —