Constituency
139. Belgachia East
Community mirrorWest Bengal Assembly Election, 1996
WB-BELGACHIA-EAST
CPM 48.3%won by 4.1%INC 44.2%
What changed here
DerivedCommunist Party of India (Marxist) held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 7.0% to 4.1%.
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 92.6% of the vote between them, up from 84.3% — 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
2,17,914
Margin
8,940
4.10%
Candidates
8 contested · winner CPM- 1SUBHAS CHAKRABORTYCommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM1,05,32848.3%
- 2ARUNAVA GHOSHIndian National Congress · INC96,38844.2%
- 3ABHIJIT GUHABharatiya Janata Party · BJP13,8556.4%
- 4SUNIL BHATTACHERJEEIndependent · IND9010.4%
- 5BIRENDRA VARMUAIICT · AIICT4750.2%
- 6SUKANTI DUTTAIndependent · IND3350.2%
- 7HIRALAL BISWASIndependent · IND3170.1%
- 8KUNAL KUMAR MAJUMDERIndependent · IND3150.1%
Since 1991
Derived- Winner then
- CPM
- Winner now
- CPM
- CPM–INC swing
- −2.9%
- CPM share
- 45.7% → 48.3%
- INC share
- 38.7% → 44.2%
- Turnout
- — → —