Constituency
266. Kanksa
Community mirrorWest Bengal Assembly Election, 1996
WB-KANKSA
CPM 61.7%won by 36.1%INC 25.5%
What changed here
DerivedCommunist Party of India (Marxist) held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 39.2% to 36.1%.
- 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
1,20,417
Margin
43,488
36.11%
Candidates
3 contested · winner CPMSince 1991
Derived- Winner then
- CPM
- Winner now
- CPM
- CPM–INC swing
- −3.1%
- CPM share
- 63.7% → 61.7%
- INC share
- 24.5% → 25.5%
- Turnout
- — → —