Constituency
221. Garhbeta West
Community mirrorWest Bengal Assembly Election, 1996
WB-GARHBETA-WEST
CPM 62.3%won by 40.2%INC 22.1%
What changed here
DerivedCommunist Party of India (Marxist) held the seat; the winning margin widened from 26.6% to 40.2%.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 84.4% between them, down from 94.3% — the field split more ways.
- Safe seatCommunist Party of India (Marxist) won by more than 25 points — a stronghold, not a contest.
- Multi-cornered4 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
1,21,253
Margin
48,796
40.24%
Candidates
4 contested · winner CPMSince 1991
Derived- Winner then
- CPM
- Winner now
- CPM
- CPM–INC swing
- +13.6%
- CPM share
- 60.5% → 62.3%
- INC share
- 33.9% → 22.1%
- Turnout
- — → —