Constituency
182. Chandernagore
Community mirrorWest Bengal Assembly Election, 1996
WB-CHANDERNAGORE
INC 49.9%won by 5.0%CPM 44.9%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Communist Party of India (Marxist) (CPM) lost it to Indian National Congress (INC), which now leads by 5.0%.
- INC vote shareINC went from 42.4% to 49.9% of the vote here (+7.5%).
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 94.8% of the vote between them, up from 87.2% — 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
1,39,320
Margin
7,034
5.05%
Candidates
8 contested · winner INC- 1KAMAL MUKHERJEEIndian National Congress · INC69,56549.9%
- 2SANDHYA CHATTOPADHYAYCommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM62,53144.9%
- 3TANDRA BHATTACHARJEEBharatiya Janata Party · BJP5,2233.7%
- 4SHAMBHU DASIndependent · IND7450.5%
- 5NANI GOPAL BHATTACHARYAIndependent · IND4230.3%
- 6DIBYENDU GUHAIndependent · IND3890.3%
- 7DEB KUMAR SHILIndependent · IND2840.2%
- 8MADAN MOHAN ROYIndependent · IND1600.1%
Since 1991
Derived- Winner then
- CPM
- Winner now
- INCflipped
- INC–CPM swing
- +7.4%
- INC share
- 42.4% → 49.9%
- CPM share
- 44.8% → 44.9%
- Turnout
- — → —