Constituency
241. Raghunathpur
Community mirrorWest Bengal Assembly Election, 1996
WB-RAGHUNATHPUR
CPM 49.3%won by 16.0%INC 33.3%
What changed here
DerivedCommunist Party of India (Marxist) held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 27.1% to 16.0%.
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 82.7% of the vote between them, up from 75.0% — a tighter two-way 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
96,707
Margin
15,466
15.99%
Candidates
5 contested · winner CPM- 1NATABAR BAGDICommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM47,70149.3%
- 2NABAKUMAR BOURIIndian National Congress · INC32,23533.3%
- 3BIJOY BOURIIndependent · IND8,0478.3%
- 4BARUN BOURIJharkhand Mukti Morcha · JMM5,1045.3%
- 5LOHAR SUDHIRBharatiya Janata Party · BJP3,6203.7%
Since 1991
Derived- Winner then
- CPM
- Winner now
- CPM
- CPM–INC swing
- −11.1%
- CPM share
- 51.1% → 49.3%
- INC share
- 24.0% → 33.3%
- Turnout
- — → —