Election
Constituency

179. Uttarpara

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West Bengal Assembly Election, 1996

WB-UTTARPARA

CPM 48.8%won by 3.7%INC 45.1%

What changed here

Derived

Communist 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
not in source
Turnout
not in source
Valid votes
1,54,953
Margin
5,751
3.71%

Since 1991

Derived
Winner then
CPM
Winner now
CPM
CPMINC swing
−0.1%
CPM share
46.2% 48.8%
INC share
42.5% 45.1%
Turnout