Constituency
224. Kharagpur Town
Community mirrorWest Bengal Assembly Election, 1996
WB-KHARAGPUR-TOWN
INC 42.1%won by 15.9%CPM 26.2%
What changed here
DerivedIndian National Congress held the seat; the winning margin widened from 14.7% to 15.9%.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 4.3% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 68.3% between them, down from 78.1% — 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
94,907
Margin
15,124
15.94%
Candidates
10 contested · winner INC- 1GYAN SINGH SOHANPALIndian National Congress · INC39,98342.1%
- 2KALIDAS NAYAKCommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM24,85926.2%
- 3SATYADEO SHARMAIndependent · IND12,55413.2%
- 4GOUTAM CHOWBEYIndependent · IND10,42811.0%
- 5PRADIP KR. PATNAIKBharatiya Janata Party · BJP5,9346.3%
- 6MD. HANIFJharkhand Mukti Morcha · JMM3960.4%
- 7SUBHRENDU MUKHERJEEShiv Sena · SHS2920.3%
- 8NAGRADANIndependent · IND2000.2%
- 9DIBYENDU DUTTAIndependent · IND1430.2%
- 10BISWAJIT SENGUPTAIndependent · IND1180.1%
Since 1991
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- INC
- INC–CPM swing
- +1.2%
- INC share
- 46.4% → 42.1%
- CPM share
- 31.7% → 26.2%
- Turnout
- — → —