Constituency
273. Raina
Community mirrorWest Bengal Assembly Election, 1996
WB-RAINA
CPM 65.2%won by 37.4%INC 27.9%
What changed here
DerivedCommunist Party of India (Marxist) held the seat; the winning margin widened from 34.3% to 37.4%.
- 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
1,22,094
Margin
45,609
37.36%
Candidates
3 contested · winner CPMSince 1991
Derived- Winner then
- CPM
- Winner now
- CPM
- CPM–INC swing
- +3.1%
- CPM share
- 62.2% → 65.2%
- INC share
- 27.9% → 27.9%
- Turnout
- — → —