Constituency
228. Dantan
Community mirrorWest Bengal Assembly Election, 1996
WB-DANTAN
CPI 63.8%won by 40.1%INC 23.7%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Communist Party of India (Marxist) (CPM) lost it to Communist Party of India (CPI), which now leads by 40.1%.
- CPI vote shareCPI went from 0.0% to 63.8% of the vote here (+63.8%).
- Safe seatCommunist Party of India 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
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Turnout
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Valid votes
1,20,703
Margin
48,385
40.09%
Candidates
4 contested · winner CPISince 1991
Derived- Winner then
- CPM
- Winner now
- CPIflipped
- CPI–INC swing
- +59.7%
- CPI share
- 0.0% → 63.8%
- INC share
- 19.6% → 23.7%
- Turnout
- — → —