Constituency
274. Jamalpur
Community mirrorWest Bengal Assembly Election, 1996
WB-JAMALPUR
CPM 58.7%won by 25.5%INC 33.2%
What changed here
DerivedCommunist Party of India (Marxist) held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 30.8% to 25.5%.
- 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
1,36,352
Margin
34,725
25.47%
Candidates
5 contested · winner CPM- 1SAMAR HAZRACommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM79,97258.7%
- 2BAIDYA NATH DASIndian National Congress · INC45,24733.2%
- 3PRASANTA PATRABharatiya Janata Party · BJP7,1835.3%
- 4SUSHIL SANTRAJharkhand Mukti Morcha · JMM3,4912.6%
- 5GOLAK GHARUIIndependent · IND4590.3%
Since 1991
Derived- Winner then
- CPM
- Winner now
- CPM
- CPM–INC swing
- −5.3%
- CPM share
- 59.2% → 58.7%
- INC share
- 28.4% → 33.2%
- Turnout
- — → —