Constituency
268. Bhatar
Community mirrorWest Bengal Assembly Election, 1996
WB-BHATAR
CPM 59.0%won by 26.0%INC 33.0%
What changed here
DerivedCommunist Party of India (Marxist) held the seat; the winning margin widened from 7.0% to 26.0%.
- 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
1,19,248
Margin
31,004
26.00%
Candidates
8 contested · winner CPM- 1SUBHAS MONDALCommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM70,34059.0%
- 2SUSANTA GHOSHIndian National Congress · INC39,33633.0%
- 3GOSWAMI SWARUPBharatiya Janata Party · BJP6,7295.6%
- 4SHIBLAL SORENShiv Sena · SHS1,4811.2%
- 5SRIKANTA RANACpi(M (L)L) · CPIMLL7370.6%
- 6MEHBUB ALAMIndependent · IND3090.3%
- 7CHATTOPADHYAY PRATULIndependent · IND1840.2%
- 8SRIPAT HARIJANIndependent · IND1320.1%
Since 1991
Derived- Winner then
- CPM
- Winner now
- CPM
- CPM–INC swing
- +19.0%
- CPM share
- 51.2% → 59.0%
- INC share
- 44.3% → 33.0%
- Turnout
- — → —