Constituency
121. Magrahat East
Community mirrorWest Bengal Assembly Election, 1996
WB-MAGRAHAT-EAST
CPM 49.7%won by 3.3%INC 46.4%
What changed here
DerivedCommunist Party of India (Marxist) held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 5.1% to 3.3%.
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 96.1% of the vote between them, up from 90.8% — 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
1,24,797
Margin
4,127
3.31%
Candidates
5 contested · winner CPM- 1NIRMAL SINHACommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM62,04549.7%
- 2NAMITA SAHAIndian National Congress · INC57,91846.4%
- 3PRABIR NASKARBharatiya Janata Party · BJP4,2683.4%
- 4ANUKUL BARIndependent · IND3670.3%
- 5TAPAN KUMAR GHARAMIIndependent · IND1990.2%
Since 1991
Derived- Winner then
- CPM
- Winner now
- CPM
- CPM–INC swing
- −1.8%
- CPM share
- 48.0% → 49.7%
- INC share
- 42.8% → 46.4%
- Turnout
- — → —