Constituency
233. Banduan
Community mirrorWest Bengal Assembly Election, 1996
WB-BANDUAN
CPM 56.2%won by 37.2%INC 18.9%
What changed here
DerivedCommunist Party of India (Marxist) held the seat; the winning margin widened from 28.5% to 37.2%.
- Runner-up changedSecond place passed from Jharkhand Mukti Morcha (JMM) to Indian National Congress (INC).
- 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
95,537
Margin
35,583
37.25%
Candidates
8 contested · winner CPM- 1LAKHIRAM KISKUCommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM53,68056.2%
- 2SITAL CHANDRA HEMBRAMIndian National Congress · INC18,09718.9%
- 3KAMALA KANTA BASKEYIndependent · IND17,44018.3%
- 4AJIT KUMAR HANSDAJMMM · JMMM2,8092.9%
- 5SURENDRA KISKUBharatiya Janata Party · BJP1,6641.7%
- 6JOGYESWAR MURMUJan Kalyan Party · JKP7820.8%
- 7RAMA KANAI KISKUIndependent · IND6050.6%
- 8NIRANJAN SORENAMB · AMB4600.5%
Since 1991
Derived- Winner then
- CPM
- Winner now
- CPM
- CPM–INC swing
- −0.1%
- CPM share
- 53.2% → 56.2%
- INC share
- 15.9% → 18.9%
- Turnout
- — → —