Constituency
136. Kamarhati
Community mirrorWest Bengal Assembly Election, 1996
WB-KAMARHATI
CPM 51.0%won by 9.9%INC 41.1%
What changed here
DerivedCommunist Party of India (Marxist) held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 16.9% to 9.9%.
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 92.1% of the vote between them, up from 86.5% — 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
1,28,836
Margin
12,770
9.91%
Candidates
3 contested · winner CPM- 1SANTI GHATAKCommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM65,69151.0%
- 2SAMBHUNATH DUTTAIndian National Congress · INC52,92141.1%
- 3MITRA BANERJEEBharatiya Janata Party · BJP10,2247.9%
Since 1991
Derived- Winner then
- CPM
- Winner now
- CPM
- CPM–INC swing
- −7.0%
- CPM share
- 51.7% → 51.0%
- INC share
- 34.8% → 41.1%
- Turnout
- — → —