Constituency
119. Diamond Harbour
Community mirrorWest Bengal Assembly Election, 1996
WB-DIAMOND-HARBOUR
INC 47.0%won by 4.6%CPM 42.4%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Communist Party of India (Marxist) (CPM) lost it to Indian National Congress (INC), which now leads by 4.6%.
- INC vote shareINC went from 30.3% to 47.0% of the vote here (+16.7%).
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 89.4% of the vote between them, up from 78.7% — a tighter two-way contest.
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
1,31,375
Margin
6,101
4.64%
Candidates
8 contested · winner INC- 1SHEIKH DAULAT ALIIndian National Congress · INC61,74447.0%
- 2ABDUL QUIYOM MOLLACommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM55,64342.4%
- 3AJIT MANDALBharatiya Janata Party · BJP11,6978.9%
- 4GIASSUDDIN MOLLAIndependent · IND8890.7%
- 5SRIGOPAL DASIndependent · IND5650.4%
- 6PRANAB DAS GUPTAIndependent · IND4270.3%
- 7MONDAL MD. NAHABUBAR RAHAMANIndependent · IND2360.2%
- 8BATA KRISHNA MISTRIIndependent · IND1740.1%
Since 1991
Derived- Winner then
- CPM
- Winner now
- INCflipped
- INC–CPM swing
- +22.8%
- INC share
- 30.3% → 47.0%
- CPM share
- 48.4% → 42.4%
- Turnout
- — → —