Constituency
167. Jagatballavpur
Community mirrorWest Bengal Assembly Election, 1996
WB-JAGATBALLAVPUR
CPM 49.5%won by 4.3%INC 45.3%
What changed here
DerivedCommunist Party of India (Marxist) held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 17.7% to 4.3%.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 3.8% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 94.8% of the vote between them, up from 88.9% — 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
1,39,432
Margin
5,937
4.26%
Candidates
6 contested · winner CPM- 1M. ANSARUDDINCommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM69,05649.5%
- 2NITYANANDA MAITYIndian National Congress · INC63,11945.3%
- 3KASHINATH BAGBharatiya Janata Party · BJP6,3874.6%
- 4AHINDRA JANAIndependent · IND4180.3%
- 5MIR IDRISH ALIIndependent · IND2670.2%
- 6BANGALI SHARMAIndependent · IND1850.1%
Since 1991
Derived- Winner then
- CPM
- Winner now
- CPM
- CPM–INC swing
- −13.5%
- CPM share
- 53.3% → 49.5%
- INC share
- 35.6% → 45.3%
- Turnout
- — → —