Constituency
280. Katwa
Community mirrorWest Bengal Assembly Election, 1996
WB-KATWA
INC 50.4%won by 5.3%CPM 45.2%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Communist Party of India (Marxist) (CPM) lost it to Indian National Congress (INC), which now leads by 5.3%.
- INC vote shareINC went from 38.6% to 50.4% of the vote here (+11.8%).
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 95.6% of the vote between them, up from 80.7% — 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
1,39,859
Margin
7,345
5.25%
Candidates
4 contested · winner INCSince 1991
Derived- Winner then
- CPM
- Winner now
- INCflipped
- INC–CPM swing
- +8.7%
- INC share
- 38.6% → 50.4%
- CPM share
- 42.1% → 45.2%
- Turnout
- — → —