Constituency
113. Behala West
Community mirrorWest Bengal Assembly Election, 1996
WB-BEHALA-WEST
CPM 47.6%won by 1.0%INC 46.6%
What changed here
DerivedCommunist Party of India (Marxist) held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 6.7% to 1.0%.
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 94.2% of the vote between them, up from 87.7% — a tighter two-way contest.
- Knife-edgeDecided by 1,792 votes (0.99%) — among the closest results anywhere.
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
1,80,118
Margin
1,792
0.99%
Candidates
9 contested · winner CPM- 1NIRMAL MUKHERJEECommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM85,69547.6%
- 2KUMUD BHATTACHARJEEIndian National Congress · INC83,90346.6%
- 3HARIKRISHNA DUTTABharatiya Janata Party · BJP7,1854.0%
- 4PANCHU GOPAL MUKHERJEEIndependent · IND9160.5%
- 5GITA DASCpi(M (L)L) · CPIMLL6280.3%
- 6DEBABROTA MUKHOPADHYAYShiv Sena · SHS6240.3%
- 7CHANCHAL HUIIndependent · IND4060.2%
- 8NATHU SHARMAIndependent · IND3820.2%
- 9SATRUGHAN SINGHIndependent · IND3790.2%
Since 1991
Derived- Winner then
- CPM
- Winner now
- CPM
- CPM–INC swing
- −5.7%
- CPM share
- 47.2% → 47.6%
- INC share
- 40.5% → 46.6%
- Turnout
- — → —