Constituency
129. Naihati
Community mirrorWest Bengal Assembly Election, 1996
WB-NAIHATI
CPM 52.4%won by 11.6%INC 40.7%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Indian National Congress (INC) lost it to Communist Party of India (Marxist) (CPM), which now leads by 11.6%.
- CPM vote shareCPM went from 0.0% to 52.4% of the vote here (+52.4%).
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 93.1% of the vote between them, up from 83.5% — 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
1,27,029
Margin
14,765
11.62%
Candidates
6 contested · winner CPM- 1RANJIT KUNDUCommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM66,52252.4%
- 2ADHIKARY TARUNIndian National Congress · INC51,75740.7%
- 3ASHUTOSH BAULBharatiya Janata Party · BJP5,8814.6%
- 4MINA PALCpi(M (L)L) · CPIMLL1,5631.2%
- 5RAMCHANDRA MONDALBahujan Samaj Party · BSP1,0000.8%
- 6MOTI CHAND PRASADIndependent · IND3060.2%
Since 1991
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- CPMflipped
- CPM–INC swing
- +54.0%
- CPM share
- 0.0% → 52.4%
- INC share
- 42.4% → 40.7%
- Turnout
- — → —