Constituency

188. Balagarh

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West Bengal Assembly Election, 1996

WB-BALAGARH

CPM 52.3%won by 11.8%INC 40.5%

What changed here

Derived

Communist Party of India (Marxist) held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 15.4% to 11.8%.

Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 92.8% of the vote between them, up from 85.0% — 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

1,26,524

Margin

14,951

11.82%

4 contested · winner CPM

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