Constituency
217. Pingla
Community mirrorWest Bengal Assembly Election, 1996
WB-PINGLA
CPM 56.8%won by 16.3%INC 40.4%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: DSPPC (DSPPC) lost it to Communist Party of India (Marxist) (CPM), which now leads by 16.3%.
- CPM vote shareCPM went from 0.0% to 56.8% of the vote here (+56.8%).
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 97.2% of the vote between them, up from 91.6% — 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
1,18,425
Margin
19,332
16.32%
Candidates
4 contested · winner CPM- 1RAM PADA SAMANTACommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM67,22356.8%
- 2SWAPAN DOBEIndian National Congress · INC47,89140.4%
- 3SUKESH MAITYBharatiya Janata Party · BJP2,5522.2%
- 4ANIL JANAIndependent · IND7590.6%
Since 1991
Derived- Winner then
- DSPPC
- Winner now
- CPMflipped
- CPM–INC swing
- +56.6%
- CPM share
- 0.0% → 56.8%
- INC share
- 40.3% → 40.4%
- Turnout
- — → —