Constituency
235. Balrampur
Community mirrorWest Bengal Assembly Election, 1996
WB-BALRAMPUR
CPM 64.0%won by 43.3%INC 20.7%
What changed here
DerivedCommunist Party of India (Marxist) held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 44.5% to 43.3%.
- 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
96,015
Margin
41,529
43.25%
Candidates
5 contested · winner CPM- 1BHANDU MAJHICommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM61,40564.0%
- 2DULALI MANDIIndian National Congress · INC19,87620.7%
- 3BINOD SING SARDARIndependent · IND11,06511.5%
- 4BIBHUTI SORENBharatiya Janata Party · BJP3,3293.5%
- 5AMIR SING LAYAIndependent · IND3400.4%
Since 1991
Derived- Winner then
- CPM
- Winner now
- CPM
- CPM–INC swing
- −1.3%
- CPM share
- 65.6% → 64.0%
- INC share
- 21.1% → 20.7%
- Turnout
- — → —