Constituency
219. Keshpur
Community mirrorWest Bengal Assembly Election, 1996
WB-KESHPUR
CPM 65.1%won by 33.7%INC 31.3%
What changed here
DerivedCommunist Party of India (Marxist) held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 37.4% to 33.7%.
- New challengerIndian National Congress (INC) finished second with 31.3% — it did not contest here in 1991.
- Safe seatCommunist Party of India (Marxist) won by more than 25 points — a stronghold, not a 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
1,28,860
Margin
43,470
33.73%
Candidates
4 contested · winner CPMSince 1991
Derived- Winner then
- CPM
- Winner now
- CPM
- CPM–INC swing
- −33.0%
- CPM share
- 66.8% → 65.1%
- INC share
- 0.0% → 31.3%
- Turnout
- — → —