Constituency
138. Dum Dum
Community mirrorWest Bengal Assembly Election, 1996
WB-DUM-DUM
CPM 53.2%won by 17.1%INC 36.1%
What changed here
DerivedCommunist Party of India (Marxist) held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 19.2% to 17.1%.
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 89.3% of the vote between them, up from 79.3% — 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
1,73,133
Margin
29,547
17.07%
Candidates
7 contested · winner CPM- 1SANKAR SENCommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM92,10253.2%
- 2NITAI GHOSHIndian National Congress · INC62,55536.1%
- 3KAMESHWAR TIWARYBharatiya Janata Party · BJP14,8648.6%
- 4BIJOY KUMAR MANDALBahujan Samaj Party · BSP1,9941.2%
- 5KAMAL LOCHAN CHATTERJEEIndependent · IND1,0940.6%
- 6KISHORE CHARN LAWIndependent · IND3970.2%
- 7AMITABHA DEYIndependent · IND1270.1%
Since 1991
Derived- Winner then
- CPM
- Winner now
- CPM
- CPM–INC swing
- −2.1%
- CPM share
- 49.2% → 53.2%
- INC share
- 30.0% → 36.1%
- Turnout
- — → —