Constituency
148. Alipore
Community mirrorWest Bengal Assembly Election, 1996
WB-ALIPORE
INC 58.7%won by 23.6%CPM 35.1%
What changed here
DerivedIndian National Congress held the seat; the winning margin widened from 20.2% to 23.6%.
- 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
87,877
Margin
20,711
23.57%
Candidates
9 contested · winner INC- 1SAUGATA ROYIndian National Congress · INC51,59058.7%
- 2RATHINDRANATH ROYCHOWDHURYCommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM30,87935.1%
- 3TAPAN DHARBharatiya Janata Party · BJP4,5115.1%
- 4SUNIL KR. GUPTAIndependent · IND3180.4%
- 5RATNA DUTTAIndependent · IND1910.2%
- 6RAMKRISHNA BISWASIndependent · IND1250.1%
- 7CHANDI CHARAN DASIndependent · IND1040.1%
- 8PARESH CHAKRABORTYIndependent · IND890.1%
- 9TRIPTI DASIndependent · IND700.1%
Since 1991
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- INC
- INC–CPM swing
- +3.3%
- INC share
- 55.2% → 58.7%
- CPM share
- 35.0% → 35.1%
- Turnout
- — → —