Constituency
98. Sandeshkhali
Community mirrorWest Bengal Assembly Election, 1996
WB-SANDESHKHALI
CPM 54.6%won by 18.3%INC 36.4%
What changed here
DerivedCommunist Party of India (Marxist) held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 28.0% to 18.3%.
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 91.0% of the vote between them, up from 82.1% — 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
1,19,828
Margin
21,878
18.26%
Candidates
5 contested · winner CPM- 1KANTI BISWASCommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM65,46754.6%
- 2RANJIT KUMARDASIndian National Congress · INC43,58936.4%
- 3DINABANDHU GAYENBharatiya Janata Party · BJP8,2056.8%
- 4AJOY DASIndependent · IND1,6551.4%
- 5RADHASHYAM BIRIndependent · IND9120.8%
Since 1991
Derived- Winner then
- CPM
- Winner now
- CPM
- CPM–INC swing
- −9.8%
- CPM share
- 55.1% → 54.6%
- INC share
- 27.0% → 36.4%
- Turnout
- — → —