Constituency
245. Raipur
Community mirrorWest Bengal Assembly Election, 1996
WB-RAIPUR
CPM 55.5%won by 34.0%INC 21.5%
What changed here
DerivedCommunist Party of India (Marxist) held the seat; the winning margin widened from 13.6% to 34.0%.
- New challengerIndian National Congress (INC) finished second with 21.5% — it did not contest here in 1991.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 77.1% between them, down from 96.2% — the field split more ways.
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
1,21,985
Margin
41,476
34.00%
Candidates
8 contested · winner CPM- 1UPEN KISKUCommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM67,75455.5%
- 2SMRITIREKHA KISKUIndian National Congress · INC26,27821.5%
- 3ADITYA KISKUJKPN · JKPN15,94713.1%
- 4RABINATH MANDIJharkhand Mukti Morcha · JMM5,9404.9%
- 5RAMKRISHNA MURMUBharatiya Janata Party · BJP4,7723.9%
- 6SUKCHAND SARENIndependent · IND5580.5%
- 7SUKHCHAND MANDIJan Kalyan Party · JKP5520.5%
- 8ANIL KAYDAIndependent · IND1840.2%
Since 1991
Derived- Winner then
- CPM
- Winner now
- CPM
- CPM–INC swing
- −20.9%
- CPM share
- 54.9% → 55.5%
- INC share
- 0.0% → 21.5%
- Turnout
- — → —