Constituency
169. Sankrail
Community mirrorWest Bengal Assembly Election, 1996
WB-SANKRAIL
INC 47.0%won by 3.6%CPM 43.5%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Communist Party of India (Marxist) (CPM) lost it to Indian National Congress (INC), which now leads by 3.6%.
- INC vote shareINC went from 40.9% to 47.0% of the vote here (+6.1%).
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 90.5% of the vote between them, up from 85.2% — 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
1,39,450
Margin
4,988
3.58%
Candidates
5 contested · winner INCSince 1991
Derived- Winner then
- CPM
- Winner now
- INCflipped
- INC–CPM swing
- +6.9%
- INC share
- 40.9% → 47.0%
- CPM share
- 44.3% → 43.5%
- Turnout
- — → —