Constituency
278. Manteswar
Community mirrorWest Bengal Assembly Election, 1996
WB-MANTESWAR
CPM 57.5%won by 19.8%INC 37.7%
What changed here
DerivedCommunist Party of India (Marxist) held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 28.5% to 19.8%.
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 95.2% of the vote between them, up from 87.5% — 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
1,17,812
Margin
23,306
19.78%
Candidates
4 contested · winner CPMSince 1991
Derived- Winner then
- CPM
- Winner now
- CPM
- CPM–INC swing
- −8.8%
- CPM share
- 58.0% → 57.5%
- INC share
- 29.5% → 37.7%
- Turnout
- — → —