Constituency
254. Kotulpur
Community mirrorWest Bengal Assembly Election, 1996
WB-KOTULPUR
CPM 63.8%won by 36.2%INC 27.6%
What changed here
DerivedCommunist Party of India (Marxist) held the seat; the winning margin widened from 32.6% to 36.2%.
- 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
1,32,050
Margin
47,816
36.21%
Candidates
4 contested · winner CPM- 1GOURIPADA DUTTACommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM84,25063.8%
- 2NIKHIL BOSEIndian National Congress · INC36,43427.6%
- 3SAKTIDHAR DEYBharatiya Janata Party · BJP10,8438.2%
- 4BASUDEB PALIndependent · IND5230.4%
Since 1991
Derived- Winner then
- CPM
- Winner now
- CPM
- CPM–INC swing
- +3.6%
- CPM share
- 61.6% → 63.8%
- INC share
- 29.0% → 27.6%
- Turnout
- — → —