Constituency
135. Panihati
Community mirrorWest Bengal Assembly Election, 1996
WB-PANIHATI
INC 46.2%won by 0.6%CPM 45.6%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Communist Party of India (Marxist) (CPM) lost it to Indian National Congress (INC), which now leads by 0.6%.
- INC vote shareINC went from 36.5% to 46.2% of the vote here (+9.7%).
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 91.8% of the vote between them, up from 78.2% — 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
1,57,167
Margin
869
0.55%
Candidates
6 contested · winner INC- 1NIRMAL GHOSHIndian National Congress · INC72,57246.2%
- 2TANIA CHAKRABARTY (BASU)Communist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM71,70345.6%
- 3MAHADEB BASAKBharatiya Janata Party · BJP11,3447.2%
- 4NIRMAL KANTI SARKARBahujan Samaj Party · BSP9740.6%
- 5SUKUMAR BISWASIndependent · IND2900.2%
- 6TAPAN CHAKRABARTYSamajwadi Andolan Party · SAP2840.2%
Since 1991
Derived- Winner then
- CPM
- Winner now
- INCflipped
- INC–CPM swing
- +5.8%
- INC share
- 36.5% → 46.2%
- CPM share
- 41.8% → 45.6%
- Turnout
- — → —