Constituency
225. Kharagpur Rural
Community mirrorWest Bengal Assembly Election, 1996
WB-KHARAGPUR-RURAL
CPM 57.2%won by 22.9%INC 34.3%
What changed here
DerivedCommunist Party of India (Marxist) held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 26.9% to 22.9%.
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 91.6% of the vote between them, up from 86.1% — a tighter two-way 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
1,27,756
Margin
29,217
22.87%
Candidates
7 contested · winner CPM- 1HAQUE NAZMULCommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM73,09757.2%
- 2RANJIT BASUIndian National Congress · INC43,88034.3%
- 3SASANKA PATRABharatiya Janata Party · BJP8,4276.6%
- 4ALAK KUMAR KARIndependent · IND1,1540.9%
- 5ANWAR HOSSAINIndependent · IND6670.5%
- 6RAM CHANDRA SARENSamajwadi Andolan Party · SAP3350.3%
- 7ADAK GAYENMUL · MUL1960.2%
Since 1991
Derived- Winner then
- CPM
- Winner now
- CPM
- CPM–INC swing
- −4.1%
- CPM share
- 56.5% → 57.2%
- INC share
- 29.6% → 34.3%
- Turnout
- — → —