Constituency
271. Burdwan South
Community mirrorWest Bengal Assembly Election, 1996
WB-BURDWAN-SOUTH
CPM 50.6%won by 8.7%INC 41.8%
What changed here
DerivedCommunist Party of India (Marxist) held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 9.8% to 8.7%.
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 92.4% of the vote between them, up from 83.7% — a tighter two-way 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
1,63,431
Margin
14,290
8.74%
Candidates
6 contested · winner CPM- 1SHYAMAPROSAD BOSECommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM82,66750.6%
- 2GHOSH SADHAN KUMARIndian National Congress · INC68,37741.8%
- 3KANAI LAL CHOUDHURYBharatiya Janata Party · BJP10,1386.2%
- 4DIPAK DASShiv Sena · SHS1,6431.0%
- 5SK. SIRAJUDDINIndependent · IND3550.2%
- 6HARI NANDAN RAMIndependent · IND2510.2%
Since 1991
Derived- Winner then
- CPM
- Winner now
- CPM
- CPM–INC swing
- −1.1%
- CPM share
- 46.8% → 50.6%
- INC share
- 36.9% → 41.8%
- Turnout
- — → —