Constituency
108. Jadavpur
Community mirrorWest Bengal Assembly Election, 1996
WB-JADAVPUR
CPM 55.6%won by 18.5%INC 37.0%
What changed here
DerivedCommunist Party of India (Marxist) held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 23.4% to 18.5%.
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 92.6% of the vote between them, up from 85.2% — 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
1,95,318
Margin
36,184
18.53%
Candidates
8 contested · winner CPM- 1BUDDHADEV BHATTACHARJEECommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM1,08,54855.6%
- 2KAKOLI GHOSH DASTIDARIndian National Congress · INC72,36437.0%
- 3RAJAT ROYBharatiya Janata Party · BJP11,5315.9%
- 4SANDHYA MANDALBahujan Samaj Party · BSP1,1300.6%
- 5DHIRESH GOSWAMICpi(M (L)L) · CPIMLL7400.4%
- 6BHUSAN MONDALIndependent · IND4400.2%
- 7DEBOSHMITA DEYIndependent · IND3440.2%
- 8HARADHAN SARKARIndependent · IND2210.1%
Since 1991
Derived- Winner then
- CPM
- Winner now
- CPM
- CPM–INC swing
- −4.9%
- CPM share
- 54.3% → 55.6%
- INC share
- 30.9% → 37.0%
- Turnout
- — → —