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Constituency

123. Mathurapur

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West Bengal Assembly Election, 1996

WB-MATHURAPUR

INC 45.6%won by 1.9%CPM 43.7%

What changed here

Derived

Indian National Congress held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 6.8% to 1.9%.

  • Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 89.3% of the vote between them, up from 84.0% — 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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not in source
Turnout
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not in source
Valid votes
1,40,265
Margin
2,655
1.89%

Candidates

5 contested · winner INC
  1. 1SATYA RANJAN BAPULIIndian National Congress · INC63,95245.6%
  2. 2KANTI BHUSAN GANGOPADHYAYCommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM61,29743.7%
  3. 3SAHADEB NASKARIndependent · IND12,1718.7%
  4. 4ANADI NASKARBharatiya Janata Party · BJP2,6761.9%
  5. 5PRAVANJAN NASKARIndependent · IND1690.1%

Since 1991

Derived
Winner then
INC
Winner now
INC
INC–CPM swing
−4.9%
INC share
45.4% → 45.6%
CPM share
38.6% → 43.7%
Turnout
— → —
122. Mandirbazar124. Kulpi
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