Constituency
262. Jamuria
Community mirrorWest Bengal Assembly Election, 1996
WB-JAMURIA
CPM 63.1%won by 32.9%INC 30.2%
What changed here
DerivedCommunist Party of India (Marxist) held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 37.5% to 32.9%.
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 93.3% of the vote between them, up from 84.4% — a tighter two-way contest.
- Safe seatCommunist Party of India (Marxist) won by more than 25 points — a stronghold, not a 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
1,09,037
Margin
35,822
32.85%
Candidates
7 contested · winner CPM- 1PELAB KABICommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM68,75863.1%
- 2ADHIKARI SANTOSHIndian National Congress · INC32,93630.2%
- 3LAKSHMAN BOURIBharatiya Janata Party · BJP3,0742.8%
- 4GERA MURMUIndependent · IND2,5862.4%
- 5SWAMINATH HARIJANIndependent · IND1,1591.1%
- 6ASHESWAR SINGHIndependent · IND2890.3%
- 7SACHIDANAND MISHRAIndependent · IND2350.2%
Since 1991
Derived- Winner then
- CPM
- Winner now
- CPM
- CPM–INC swing
- −4.7%
- CPM share
- 61.0% → 63.1%
- INC share
- 23.4% → 30.2%
- Turnout
- — → —