Constituency
222. Salbani
Community mirrorWest Bengal Assembly Election, 1996
WB-SALBANI
CPM 60.2%won by 36.7%JKPN 23.6%
What changed here
DerivedCommunist Party of India (Marxist) held the seat; the winning margin widened from 13.4% to 36.7%.
- New challengerJKPN (JKPN) finished second with 23.6% — it did not contest here in 1991.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 83.8% between them, down from 95.6% — the field split more ways.
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
1,08,070
Margin
39,614
36.66%
Candidates
8 contested · winner CPM- 1KHAGENDRA NATH MAHATOCommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM65,07360.2%
- 2TAPAS DASJKPN · JKPN25,45923.6%
- 3ARUN GHOSHBharatiya Janata Party · BJP6,3515.9%
- 4MAHATO CHHATRADHARIndependent · IND6,1205.7%
- 5BASANTI MAHATOIndependent · IND2,7722.6%
- 6ACHRAYA DILIPJan Kalyan Party · JKP1,5231.4%
- 7SUSANTA SAHUIndependent · IND4740.4%
- 8KHANDAKAR MUNARAF HOSSAINShiv Sena · SHS2980.3%
Since 1991
Derived- Winner then
- CPM
- Winner now
- CPM
- CPM–JKPN swing
- −17.9%
- CPM share
- 54.5% → 60.2%
- JKPN share
- 0.0% → 23.6%
- Turnout
- — → —