Constituency
220. Garhbeta East
Community mirrorWest Bengal Assembly Election, 1996
WB-GARHBETA-EAST
CPM 66.7%won by 43.5%INC 23.2%
What changed here
DerivedCommunist Party of India (Marxist) held the seat; the winning margin widened from 35.3% to 43.5%.
- Safe seatCommunist Party of India (Marxist) won by more than 25 points — a stronghold, not a contest.
- 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
1,18,127
Margin
51,376
43.49%
Candidates
4 contested · winner CPMSince 1991
Derived- Winner then
- CPM
- Winner now
- CPM
- CPM–INC swing
- +8.2%
- CPM share
- 62.5% → 66.7%
- INC share
- 27.2% → 23.2%
- Turnout
- — → —