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Constituency

208. Bhagabanpur

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West Bengal Assembly Election, 1996

WB-BHAGABANPUR

INC 48.0%won by 0.3%CPM 47.7%

What changed here

Derived

The seat changed hands: Communist Party of India (Marxist) (CPM) lost it to Indian National Congress (INC), which now leads by 0.3%.

  • INC vote shareINC went from 40.7% to 48.0% of the vote here (+7.3%).
  • Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 95.7% of the vote between them, up from 90.6% — a tighter two-way contest.

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

Electorate
not in source
Turnout
not in source
Valid votes
1,07,420
Margin
293
0.27%

Since 1991

Derived
Winner then
CPM
Winner now
INCflipped
INCCPM swing
+9.5%
INC share
40.7% 48.0%
CPM share
49.9% 47.7%
Turnout