Constituency
230. Gopiballavpur
Community mirrorWest Bengal Assembly Election, 1996
WB-GOPIBALLAVPUR
CPM 63.2%won by 45.5%INC 17.7%
What changed here
DerivedCommunist Party of India (Marxist) held the seat; the winning margin widened from 40.0% to 45.5%.
- 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
1,16,011
Margin
52,804
45.52%
Candidates
5 contested · winner CPM- 1RANA SAKTICommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM73,30863.2%
- 2REKHA RANI MAHATAIndian National Congress · INC20,50417.7%
- 3SUSHIL MAHATOJKPN · JKPN12,56010.8%
- 4ANIRUDHA GHARAIIndependent · IND6,8885.9%
- 5SUDHANGSU SEKHAR GHARAIBharatiya Janata Party · BJP2,7512.4%
Since 1991
Derived- Winner then
- CPM
- Winner now
- CPM
- CPM–INC swing
- +5.5%
- CPM share
- 62.1% → 63.2%
- INC share
- 22.2% → 17.7%
- Turnout
- — → —