Constituency
206. Nandigram
Community mirrorWest Bengal Assembly Election, 1996
WB-NANDIGRAM
INC 49.2%won by 0.1%CPI 49.1%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Communist Party of India (CPI) lost it to Indian National Congress (INC), which now leads by 0.1%.
- INC vote shareINC went from 44.3% to 49.2% of the vote here (+4.9%).
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 98.3% of the vote between them, up from 92.2% — 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
1,25,708
Margin
138
0.11%
Candidates
5 contested · winner INC- 1DEBISANKAR PANDAIndian National Congress · INC61,88549.2%
- 2SAKTI BALCommunist Party of India · CPI61,74749.1%
- 3JOYDEB SATPATIBharatiya Janata Party · BJP1,5081.2%
- 4BHABANI PRASAD DASIndependent · IND4500.4%
- 5NIRMALENDU PAHARIIndependent · IND1180.1%
Since 1991
Derived- Winner then
- CPI
- Winner now
- INCflipped
- INC–CPI swing
- +3.6%
- INC share
- 44.3% → 49.2%
- CPI share
- 47.8% → 49.1%
- Turnout
- — → —