Constituency
140. Cossipur
Community mirrorWest Bengal Assembly Election, 1996
WB-COSSIPUR
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 39.8% to 46.2% of the vote here (+6.5%).
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 91.8% of the vote between them, up from 86.5% — 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
73,114
Margin
462
0.63%
Candidates
16 contested · winner INC- 1BANDYOPADHYAY TARAKIndian National Congress · INC33,79946.2%
- 2ANUP DASCommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM33,33745.6%
- 3PRABHAKAR TEWARIBharatiya Janata Party · BJP4,7436.5%
- 4ANUPAM DASIndependent · IND3220.4%
- 5PRAYAG BHAGATIndependent · IND2050.3%
- 6RANJIT KUMAR BAUDHIndependent · IND1300.2%
- 7CHANDRAMOHAN GUPTAIndependent · IND1060.1%
- 8JOYANTA SINHAIndependent · IND1050.1%
- 9UPEN CHANDRA PAULIndependent · IND810.1%
- 10BHAGYADHAR BAGIndependent · IND670.1%
- 11ABHIJIT CHOUDHURYIndependent · IND630.1%
- 12PRANAB BAGCHIIndependent · IND490.1%
- 13GANGADHAR PANDAIndependent · IND300.0%
- 14SUBRATA BANERJEEIndependent · IND260.0%
- 15TAPATI DASIndependent · IND260.0%
- 16PARIMAL KUNDUIndependent · IND250.0%
Since 1991
Derived- Winner then
- CPM
- Winner now
- INCflipped
- INC–CPM swing
- +7.7%
- INC share
- 39.8% → 46.2%
- CPM share
- 46.8% → 45.6%
- Turnout
- — → —