Constituency
218. Debra
Community mirrorWest Bengal Assembly Election, 1996
WB-DEBRA
CPM 57.4%won by 23.5%INC 33.9%
What changed here
DerivedCommunist Party of India (Marxist) held the seat; the winning margin widened from 19.5% to 23.5%.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 91.3% between them, down from 96.9% — the field split more ways.
- 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
1,24,520
Margin
29,254
23.49%
Candidates
4 contested · winner CPMSince 1991
Derived- Winner then
- CPM
- Winner now
- CPM
- CPM–INC swing
- +4.0%
- CPM share
- 58.2% → 57.4%
- INC share
- 38.7% → 33.9%
- Turnout
- — → —