Constituency
159. Manicktola
Community mirrorWest Bengal Assembly Election, 1996
WB-MANICKTOLA
INC 48.2%won by 0.4%CPM 47.8%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Communist Party of India (Marxist) (CPM) lost it to Indian National Congress (INC), which now leads by 0.4%.
- INC vote shareINC went from 42.6% to 48.2% of the vote here (+5.5%).
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 95.9% of the vote between them, up from 90.7% — 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
1,28,894
Margin
507
0.39%
Candidates
7 contested · winner INC- 1PARESH PAULIndian National Congress · INC62,08848.2%
- 2SHYAMAL CHAKRABORTYCommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM61,58147.8%
- 3RAKHAL DEYBharatiya Janata Party · BJP4,3623.4%
- 4S. CHAKRABORTYIndependent · IND4540.4%
- 5S. CHAKRABORTYIndependent · IND2030.2%
- 6SUBIR BHATTACHARYAIndependent · IND1370.1%
- 7AMAR NATH SHOWIndependent · IND690.1%
Since 1991
Derived- Winner then
- CPM
- Winner now
- INCflipped
- INC–CPM swing
- +5.8%
- INC share
- 42.6% → 48.2%
- CPM share
- 48.0% → 47.8%
- Turnout
- — → —