Constituency
134. Khardah
Community mirrorWest Bengal Assembly Election, 1996
WB-KHARDAH
CPM 52.3%won by 12.6%INC 39.8%
What changed here
DerivedCommunist Party of India (Marxist) held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 21.6% to 12.6%.
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 92.1% of the vote between them, up from 81.8% — 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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Turnout
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Valid votes
1,63,436
Margin
20,529
12.56%
Candidates
4 contested · winner CPMSince 1991
Derived- Winner then
- CPM
- Winner now
- CPM
- CPM–INC swing
- −9.0%
- CPM share
- 51.7% → 52.3%
- INC share
- 30.1% → 39.8%
- Turnout
- — → —