Constituency
103. Joynagar
Community mirrorWest Bengal Assembly Election, 1996
WB-JOYNAGAR
IND 43.4%won by 21.0%CPM 22.4%
What changed here
DerivedIndependent held the seat; the winning margin widened from 11.3% to 21.0%.
- Runner-up changedSecond place passed from Indian National Congress (INC) to Communist Party of India (Marxist) (CPM).
- 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
—
not in source
Turnout
—
not in source
Valid votes
1,21,445
Margin
25,494
20.99%
Candidates
7 contested · winner IND- 1DEBA PRASAD SARKARIndependent · IND52,71843.4%
- 2RABINDRA NATH BASUCommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM27,22422.4%
- 3MRITUNJAY MODAKIndian National Congress · INC25,96721.4%
- 4DEBOTOSH ACHARYABharatiya Janata Party · BJP12,72910.5%
- 5KHALILUR RAHAMAN MOLLAMUL · MUL1,9841.6%
- 6GOUR HALDARIndependent · IND6260.5%
- 7GAZI JALAL UDDINIndependent · IND1970.2%
Since 1991
Derived- Winner then
- IND
- Winner now
- IND
- IND–CPM swing
- −1.5%
- IND share
- 40.4% → 43.4%
- CPM share
- 17.9% → 22.4%
- Turnout
- — → —