Constituency
244. Taldangra
Community mirrorWest Bengal Assembly Election, 1996
WB-TALDANGRA
CPM 60.9%won by 35.7%INC 25.2%
What changed here
DerivedCommunist Party of India (Marxist) held the seat; the winning margin widened from 25.4% to 35.7%.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 86.2% between them, down from 93.5% — the field split more ways.
- 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
1,26,038
Margin
45,029
35.73%
Candidates
6 contested · winner CPM- 1MONORANJAN PATRACommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM76,81060.9%
- 2DEBAPRASAD SINGHA BARATHAKURIndian National Congress · INC31,78125.2%
- 3MAHADEB KHANBharatiya Janata Party · BJP11,8859.4%
- 4ISWAR TUDUJharkhand Mukti Morcha · JMM4,3623.5%
- 5DHIREN LAYEKIndependent · IND6740.5%
- 6KANCHAN HANSDAIndependent · IND5260.4%
Since 1991
Derived- Winner then
- CPM
- Winner now
- CPM
- CPM–INC swing
- +10.4%
- CPM share
- 59.5% → 60.9%
- INC share
- 34.1% → 25.2%
- Turnout
- — → —