Constituency
276. Kalna
Community mirrorWest Bengal Assembly Election, 1996
WB-KALNA
CPM 52.4%won by 12.0%INC 40.4%
What changed here
DerivedCommunist Party of India (Marxist) held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 22.5% to 12.0%.
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 92.8% of the vote between them, up from 86.4% — a tighter two-way contest.
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
1,38,039
Margin
16,504
11.96%
Candidates
8 contested · winner CPM- 1ANJU KARCommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM72,32952.4%
- 2LAKSHMAN KUMAR ROYIndian National Congress · INC55,82540.4%
- 3BISWANATH GHOSHBharatiya Janata Party · BJP6,4004.6%
- 4BAIDYANATH MURMUJharkhand Mukti Morcha · JMM2,2011.6%
- 5JAGANNATH MONDALCpi(M (L)L) · CPIMLL7290.5%
- 6RABINDRANATH HALDARIndependent · IND2250.2%
- 7RANU GOLDARIndependent · IND1670.1%
- 8PAL SUKANTAIndependent · IND1630.1%
Since 1991
Derived- Winner then
- CPM
- Winner now
- CPM
- CPM–INC swing
- −10.5%
- CPM share
- 54.4% → 52.4%
- INC share
- 32.0% → 40.4%
- Turnout
- — → —