Election
Constituency

105. Canning West

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West Bengal Assembly Election, 1996

WB-CANNING-WEST

CPM 46.0%won by 3.9%INC 42.1%

What changed here

Derived

Communist 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
not in source
Turnout
not in source
Valid votes
1,40,235
Margin
5,505
3.93%

Since 1991

Derived
Winner then
CPM
Winner now
CPM
CPMINC swing
−7.7%
CPM share
47.0% 46.0%
INC share
35.4% 42.1%
Turnout