Constituency
189. Pandua
Community mirrorWest Bengal Assembly Election, 1996
WB-PANDUA
CPM 54.8%won by 17.6%INC 37.1%
What changed here
DerivedCommunist Party of India (Marxist) held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 29.6% to 17.6%.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 4.0% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
- 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
1,42,293
Margin
25,110
17.65%
Candidates
8 contested · winner CPM- 1ALI SK. MAJEDCommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM77,91154.8%
- 2MADHUSUDAN BANERJEEIndian National Congress · INC52,80137.1%
- 3BIDUR PRAMANIKBharatiya Janata Party · BJP7,3145.1%
- 4SK. MONIRUDDINIndependent · IND1,7021.2%
- 5GOPAL GHOSHCpi(M (L)L) · CPIMLL1,2420.9%
- 6LAKSHMI NARAYAN BOULDASBahujan Samaj Party · BSP5750.4%
- 7MADAN MOHAN HANSDAIndependent · IND5460.4%
- 8ANSAR ALIIndependent · IND2020.1%
Since 1991
Derived- Winner then
- CPM
- Winner now
- CPM
- CPM–INC swing
- −11.9%
- CPM share
- 58.7% → 54.8%
- INC share
- 29.2% → 37.1%
- Turnout
- — → —