Constituency
117. Satgachia
Community mirrorWest Bengal Assembly Election, 1996
WB-SATGACHIA
CPM 48.7%won by 9.2%INC 39.5%
What changed here
DerivedCommunist Party of India (Marxist) held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 19.9% to 9.2%.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 5.4% — 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
1,20,347
Margin
11,110
9.23%
Candidates
9 contested · winner CPM- 1JYOTI BASUCommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM58,59748.7%
- 2BAG CHITTA RANJANIndian National Congress · INC47,48739.5%
- 3MUZAFFAR KHANBharatiya Janata Party · BJP10,6868.9%
- 4GHOSH TIMIR BARANIndependent · IND1,8621.5%
- 5ABDUL AJIJMUL · MUL8160.7%
- 6MADAN MOHAN DASShiv Sena · SHS4100.3%
- 7SWAPAN DEYIndependent · IND2450.2%
- 8ABHIJIT GHOSHIndependent · IND1490.1%
- 9SHYAMAL DASIndependent · IND950.1%
Since 1991
Derived- Winner then
- CPM
- Winner now
- CPM
- CPM–INC swing
- −10.7%
- CPM share
- 54.1% → 48.7%
- INC share
- 34.1% → 39.5%
- Turnout
- — → —