Constituency
105. Canning West
Community mirrorWest Bengal Assembly Election, 1996
WB-CANNING-WEST
CPM 46.0%won by 3.9%INC 42.1%
What changed here
DerivedCommunist Party of India (Marxist) held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 11.6% to 3.9%.
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 88.1% of the vote between them, up from 82.4% — 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
1,40,235
Margin
5,505
3.93%
Candidates
4 contested · winner CPMSince 1991
Derived- Winner then
- CPM
- Winner now
- CPM
- CPM–INC swing
- −7.7%
- CPM share
- 47.0% → 46.0%
- INC share
- 35.4% → 42.1%
- Turnout
- — → —