Constituency
106. Canning East
Community mirrorWest Bengal Assembly Election, 1996
WB-CANNING-EAST
CPM 76.2%won by 57.1%INC 19.1%
What changed here
DerivedCommunist Party of India (Marxist) held the seat; the winning margin widened from 50.1% to 57.1%.
- Safe seatCommunist Party of India (Marxist) won by more than 25 points — a stronghold, not a contest.
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
1,16,901
Margin
66,765
57.11%
Candidates
6 contested · winner CPM- 1ABDUR RAZZAK MOLLACommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM89,06276.2%
- 2AKRAM LASKARIndian National Congress · INC22,29719.1%
- 3BHANUPADA MONDALBharatiya Janata Party · BJP2,9952.6%
- 4ABDUR RAHAMAN JAMADARIndependent · IND1,1771.0%
- 5IBRAHIM MOLLAIndependent · IND9180.8%
- 6ABDUS SATTAR MOLLAIndependent · IND4520.4%
Since 1991
Derived- Winner then
- CPM
- Winner now
- CPM
- CPM–INC swing
- +7.0%
- CPM share
- 71.8% → 76.2%
- INC share
- 21.7% → 19.1%
- Turnout
- — → —