Constituency
231. Jhargram
Community mirrorWest Bengal Assembly Election, 1996
WB-JHARGRAM
CPM 66.4%won by 51.3%INC 15.1%
What changed here
DerivedCommunist Party of India (Marxist) held the seat; the winning margin widened from 33.7% to 51.3%.
- 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
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Turnout
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Valid votes
1,32,292
Margin
67,911
51.33%
Candidates
9 contested · winner CPM- 1BUDDHADEV BHAKATCommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM87,88666.4%
- 2CHAITNYA MURMUIndian National Congress · INC19,97515.1%
- 3KARTIC MAHATAJKPN · JKPN14,58411.0%
- 4SURENDRA NATH MAHATABharatiya Janata Party · BJP4,4263.3%
- 5GURUPADA MAHATAHJKP · HJKP2,3261.8%
- 6RANJIT MAHATAJharkhand Mukti Morcha · JMM1,6051.2%
- 7PASUPATI SAHOOIndependent · IND6990.5%
- 8GUNA DHAR MAHATAJan Kalyan Party · JKP4320.3%
- 9GITA RANI DASIndependent · IND3590.3%
Since 1991
Derived- Winner then
- CPM
- Winner now
- CPM
- CPM–INC swing
- +17.7%
- CPM share
- 59.5% → 66.4%
- INC share
- 25.8% → 15.1%
- Turnout
- — → —