Constituency
211. Contai South
Community mirrorWest Bengal Assembly Election, 1996
WB-CONTAI-SOUTH
INC 48.6%won by 7.0%CPI 41.6%
What changed here
DerivedIndian National Congress held the seat; the winning margin widened from 5.8% to 7.0%.
- 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
1,12,165
Margin
7,801
6.95%
Candidates
8 contested · winner INC- 1SAILAJA KUMAR DASIndian National Congress · INC54,46648.6%
- 2SUKHENDU MAITYCommunist Party of India · CPI46,66541.6%
- 3PARIJAT PALLAV BISWASBharatiya Janata Party · BJP7,1596.4%
- 4HERAMBA KUMAR DASIndependent · IND2,5812.3%
- 5ASOKE RAJ KARANIndependent · IND9030.8%
- 6ARUN DASIndependent · IND2390.2%
- 7SAYED JEAUR RAHAMAN BAKSHIndependent · IND1130.1%
- 8ANIL JIT JANAIndependent · IND390.0%
Since 1991
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- INC
- INC–CPI swing
- +1.1%
- INC share
- 46.4% → 48.6%
- CPI share
- 40.6% → 41.6%
- Turnout
- — → —