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Constituency

202. Tamluk

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West Bengal Assembly Election, 1996

WB-TAMLUK

INC 47.0%won by 0.3%CPI 46.7%

What changed here

Derived

Indian National Congress held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 4.1% to 0.3%.

  • Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 93.7% of the vote between them, up from 88.4% — a tighter two-way contest.
  • Knife-edgeDecided by 330 votes (0.25%) — among the closest results anywhere.

Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.

Electorate
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not in source
Turnout
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not in source
Valid votes
1,30,678
Margin
330
0.25%

Candidates

6 contested · winner INC
  1. 1ANIL MUDIIndian National Congress · INC61,40947.0%
  2. 2SURAJIT BAGCHICommunist Party of India · CPI61,07946.7%
  3. 3MANAB BERAIndependent · IND4,4883.4%
  4. 4MATILAL KHATUABharatiya Janata Party · BJP3,3462.6%
  5. 5SUDHIR RANJAN ADHIKARYIndependent · IND2660.2%
  6. 6TRIDIVESH PRAMANIKIndependent · IND900.1%

Since 1991

Derived
Winner then
INC
Winner now
INC
INC–CPI swing
−3.9%
INC share
46.2% → 47.0%
CPI share
42.1% → 46.7%
Turnout
— → —
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