Constituency
200. Panskura West
Community mirrorWest Bengal Assembly Election, 1996
WB-PANSKURA-WEST
CPI 47.0%won by 2.8%INC 44.2%
What changed here
DerivedCommunist Party of India held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 25.7% to 2.8%.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 5.2% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 91.2% of the vote between them, up from 78.8% — 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
1,22,572
Margin
3,454
2.82%
Candidates
6 contested · winner CPI- 1CHITTA RANJAN DAS THAKURCommunist Party of India · CPI57,64447.0%
- 2KHAN JAKIUR RAHAMANIndian National Congress · INC54,19044.2%
- 3BISHNU PADA KUITIBharatiya Janata Party · BJP5,5304.5%
- 4AJIT BHOWMIKIndependent · IND4,8263.9%
- 5NISITH MAITIIndependent · IND1990.2%
- 6SADHAN PATTANAYEKAMB · AMB1830.1%
Since 1991
Derived- Winner then
- CPI
- Winner now
- CPI
- CPI–INC swing
- −22.8%
- CPI share
- 52.2% → 47.0%
- INC share
- 26.6% → 44.2%
- Turnout
- — → —