Constituency
179. Uttarpara
Community mirrorWest Bengal Assembly Election, 1996
WB-UTTARPARA
CPM 48.8%won by 3.7%INC 45.1%
What changed here
DerivedCommunist Party of India (Marxist) held the seat; the winning margin held roughly steady from 3.8% to 3.7%.
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 94.0% of the vote between them, up from 88.7% — a tighter two-way contest.
- 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
1,54,953
Margin
5,751
3.71%
Candidates
5 contested · winner CPMSince 1991
Derived- Winner then
- CPM
- Winner now
- CPM
- CPM–INC swing
- −0.1%
- CPM share
- 46.2% → 48.8%
- INC share
- 42.5% → 45.1%
- Turnout
- — → —