Constituency
229. Nayagram
Community mirrorWest Bengal Assembly Election, 1996
WB-NAYAGRAM
CPM 57.9%won by 39.9%INC 18.0%
What changed here
DerivedCommunist Party of India (Marxist) held the seat; the winning margin widened from 35.2% to 39.9%.
- New challengerIndian National Congress (INC) finished second with 18.0% — it did not contest here in 1991.
- Safe seatCommunist Party of India (Marxist) won by more than 25 points — a stronghold, not a contest.
- Multi-cornered4 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
1,00,086
Margin
39,967
39.93%
Candidates
6 contested · winner CPM- 1SUBHAS CHANDRA SARENCommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM57,95457.9%
- 2MADHU SUDAN SARENIndian National Congress · INC17,98718.0%
- 3JHARESWAR HANSDAJKPN · JKPN13,55413.5%
- 4PREMCHAND TUDUBharatiya Janata Party · BJP5,1765.2%
- 5RUPAI HEMBRAMJharkhand Mukti Morcha · JMM4,4324.4%
- 6KAMAL SARENHJKP · HJKP9831.0%
Since 1991
Derived- Winner then
- CPM
- Winner now
- CPM
- CPM–INC swing
- −15.0%
- CPM share
- 54.9% → 57.9%
- INC share
- 0.0% → 18.0%
- Turnout
- — → —