Constituency
111. Bishnupur West
Community mirrorWest Bengal Assembly Election, 1996
WB-BISHNUPUR-WEST
CPM 48.5%won by 4.2%INC 44.3%
What changed here
DerivedCommunist Party of India (Marxist) held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 11.4% to 4.2%.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 3.8% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
- 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
1,22,446
Margin
5,137
4.20%
Candidates
9 contested · winner CPM- 1SANKAR SARAN NASKARCommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM59,43148.5%
- 2ARUNA GHOSH DOSTIDERIndian National Congress · INC54,29444.3%
- 3KARUNAMOY GHOSHBharatiya Janata Party · BJP6,9185.6%
- 4GANESH MANDALIndependent · IND6420.5%
- 5SUBHAS MANNAMUL · MUL4090.3%
- 6SAMSUDDIN MISTRYIndependent · IND2700.2%
- 7RAM CHANDRA DEY SARKARIndependent · IND2030.2%
- 8VIVEKANANDA KARIndependent · IND1640.1%
- 9RAGHUNATH ROYIndependent · IND1150.1%
Since 1991
Derived- Winner then
- CPM
- Winner now
- CPM
- CPM–INC swing
- −7.2%
- CPM share
- 52.4% → 48.5%
- INC share
- 41.0% → 44.3%
- Turnout
- — → —