Constituency
250. Barjora
Community mirrorWest Bengal Assembly Election, 1996
WB-BARJORA
CPM 52.0%won by 10.7%INC 41.3%
What changed here
DerivedCommunist Party of India (Marxist) held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 21.5% to 10.7%.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 4.1% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
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
1,28,630
Margin
13,721
10.67%
Candidates
6 contested · winner CPM- 1SUSMITA BISWASCommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM66,84252.0%
- 2TAPASI BANERJEEIndian National Congress · INC53,12141.3%
- 3PRIYA NATH KARBharatiya Janata Party · BJP5,0373.9%
- 4LAKSHMAN DEShiv Sena · SHS2,4031.9%
- 5KARTIK GHOSHIndependent · IND8310.6%
- 6SUNIL SARKARIndependent · IND3960.3%
Since 1991
Derived- Winner then
- CPM
- Winner now
- CPM
- CPM–INC swing
- −10.9%
- CPM share
- 56.1% → 52.0%
- INC share
- 34.5% → 41.3%
- Turnout
- — → —