Constituency
260. Asansol
Community mirrorWest Bengal Assembly Election, 1996
WB-ASANSOL
INC 50.1%won by 9.9%CPM 40.2%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Communist Party of India (Marxist) (CPM) lost it to Indian National Congress (INC), which now leads by 9.9%.
- INC vote shareINC went from 23.9% to 50.1% of the vote here (+26.1%).
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 90.2% of the vote between them, up from 74.5% — a tighter two-way contest.
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
1,17,543
Margin
11,634
9.90%
Candidates
10 contested · winner INC- 1TAPAS BANERJEEIndian National Congress · INC58,84550.1%
- 2GOUTAM ROYCHOWDHURYCommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM47,21140.2%
- 3TRIPTI RATAN DUTTABharatiya Janata Party · BJP9,4648.1%
- 4LAKSHMI CHAKRABORTYIndependent · IND4860.4%
- 5DIPALI MONDALIndependent · IND3730.3%
- 6MANIK BAYENAMB · AMB3210.3%
- 7SUKUMAR SARKERIndependent · IND3060.3%
- 8JITENLUI DUTTAIndependent · IND3050.3%
- 9MIHIR KR. MUKHOPADHYAYIndependent · IND1640.1%
- 10OMPRAKASH SINGHIndependent · IND680.1%
Since 1991
Derived- Winner then
- CPM
- Winner now
- INCflipped
- INC–CPM swing
- +29.3%
- INC share
- 23.9% → 50.1%
- CPM share
- 43.3% → 40.2%
- Turnout
- — → —