Constituency
275. Memari
Community mirrorWest Bengal Assembly Election, 1996
WB-MEMARI
CPM 60.4%won by 28.6%INC 31.8%
What changed here
DerivedCommunist Party of India (Marxist) held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 34.4% to 28.6%.
- 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
1,56,774
Margin
44,810
28.58%
Candidates
6 contested · winner CPM- 1TAPAS CHATTOPADHYAYCommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM94,63660.4%
- 2NABA KUMAR CHATTERJEEIndian National Congress · INC49,82631.8%
- 3BHISMADEB BHATTACHARYABharatiya Janata Party · BJP9,4096.0%
- 4MUKUNDA SORENJharkhand Mukti Morcha · JMM2,3171.5%
- 5SAMIR KUMAR PODDERIndependent · IND3120.2%
- 6HRIDAY NANDA HALDERShiv Sena · SHS2740.2%
Since 1991
Derived- Winner then
- CPM
- Winner now
- CPM
- CPM–INC swing
- −5.8%
- CPM share
- 61.0% → 60.4%
- INC share
- 26.6% → 31.8%
- Turnout
- — → —