Constituency
226. Keshiari
Community mirrorWest Bengal Assembly Election, 1996
WB-KESHIARI
CPM 67.0%won by 41.7%INC 25.2%
What changed here
DerivedCommunist Party of India (Marxist) held the seat; the winning margin widened from 39.6% to 41.7%.
- 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
—
not in source
Turnout
—
not in source
Valid votes
1,23,017
Margin
51,331
41.73%
Candidates
4 contested · winner CPM- 1MAHESWAR MURMUCommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM82,36667.0%
- 2GOURI TUDUIndian National Congress · INC31,03525.2%
- 3MANMATHA NATH SINGHBharatiya Janata Party · BJP8,8907.2%
- 4MANGAL BASKEAMB · AMB7260.6%
Since 1991
Derived- Winner then
- CPM
- Winner now
- CPM
- CPM–INC swing
- +2.1%
- CPM share
- 63.8% → 67.0%
- INC share
- 24.1% → 25.2%
- Turnout
- — → —