Constituency
255. Indas
Community mirrorWest Bengal Assembly Election, 1996
WB-INDAS
CPM 63.2%won by 41.9%INC 21.4%
What changed here
DerivedCommunist Party of India (Marxist) held the seat; the winning margin widened from 37.4% to 41.9%.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 84.6% between them, down from 90.2% — 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
1,21,570
Margin
50,893
41.86%
Candidates
3 contested · winner CPM- 1NANDADULAL MAJHICommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM76,85163.2%
- 2NABA KUMAR RAJAKIndian National Congress · INC25,95821.4%
- 3DIGER BASUDEBBharatiya Janata Party · BJP18,76115.4%
Since 1991
Derived- Winner then
- CPM
- Winner now
- CPM
- CPM–INC swing
- +4.5%
- CPM share
- 63.8% → 63.2%
- INC share
- 26.4% → 21.4%
- Turnout
- — → —