Constituency
102. Kultali
Community mirrorWest Bengal Assembly Election, 1996
WB-KULTALI
IND 48.8%won by 8.0%CPM 40.8%
What changed here
DerivedIndependent held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 16.9% to 8.0%.
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 89.6% of the vote between them, up from 80.8% — 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
1,27,976
Margin
10,293
8.04%
Candidates
4 contested · winner IND- 1PRABOD PURKAITIndependent · IND62,45348.8%
- 2RAM SANKAR HALDARCommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM52,16040.8%
- 3GOPAL MAJHIIndian National Congress · INC10,5778.3%
- 4BAIDYA NATH HALDARBharatiya Janata Party · BJP2,7862.2%
Since 1991
Derived- Winner then
- IND
- Winner now
- IND
- IND–CPM swing
- −8.9%
- IND share
- 48.8% → 48.8%
- CPM share
- 31.9% → 40.8%
- Turnout
- — → —