Constituency
115. Maheshtala
Community mirrorWest Bengal Assembly Election, 1996
WB-MAHESHTALA
CPM 51.8%won by 9.9%INC 41.9%
What changed here
DerivedCommunist Party of India (Marxist) held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 18.8% to 9.9%.
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 93.7% of the vote between them, up from 81.3% — 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
1,39,579
Margin
13,811
9.89%
Candidates
5 contested · winner CPM- 1MURSALIN MOLLACommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM72,27451.8%
- 2GOURANGA MUKHERJEEIndian National Congress · INC58,46341.9%
- 3SOMEN DASBharatiya Janata Party · BJP7,1745.1%
- 4SOLAMAN KHANMUL · MUL1,3461.0%
- 5PHULA DEVI KAHARIndependent · IND3220.2%
Since 1991
Derived- Winner then
- CPM
- Winner now
- CPM
- CPM–INC swing
- −9.0%
- CPM share
- 50.1% → 51.8%
- INC share
- 31.2% → 41.9%
- Turnout
- — → —