Constituency
277. Nadanghat
Community mirrorWest Bengal Assembly Election, 1996
WB-NADANGHAT
CPM 47.0%won by 7.4%INC 39.6%
What changed here
DerivedCommunist Party of India (Marxist) held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 21.8% to 7.4%.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 3.8% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 86.7% of the vote between them, up from 79.8% — 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
1,48,379
Margin
10,968
7.39%
Candidates
7 contested · winner CPM- 1BIREN GHOSHCommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM69,77047.0%
- 2SWAPAN DEBNATHIndian National Congress · INC58,80239.6%
- 3SUKHAMAY NATHBharatiya Janata Party · BJP15,82710.7%
- 4DUKHIRAM HEMROMJharkhand Mukti Morcha · JMM1,9921.3%
- 5BHIM CHANDRA BAGCpi(M (L)L) · CPIMLL1,5201.0%
- 6ABDUL MANNAN SHAIKHIndependent · IND3320.2%
- 7ALOK MUKHERJEEIndependent · IND1360.1%
Since 1991
Derived- Winner then
- CPM
- Winner now
- CPM
- CPM–INC swing
- −14.5%
- CPM share
- 50.8% → 47.0%
- INC share
- 29.0% → 39.6%
- Turnout
- — → —