Constituency
272. Khandaghosh
Community mirrorWest Bengal Assembly Election, 1996
WB-KHANDAGHOSH
CPM 66.4%won by 38.8%INC 27.6%
What changed here
DerivedCommunist Party of India (Marxist) held the seat; the winning margin held roughly steady from 39.2% to 38.8%.
- 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
1,16,143
Margin
45,061
38.80%
Candidates
3 contested · winner CPMSince 1991
Derived- Winner then
- CPM
- Winner now
- CPM
- CPM–INC swing
- −0.4%
- CPM share
- 64.9% → 66.4%
- INC share
- 25.7% → 27.6%
- Turnout
- — → —