Constituency
281. Mangalkot
Community mirrorWest Bengal Assembly Election, 1996
WB-MANGALKOT
CPM 54.6%won by 18.4%INC 36.2%
What changed here
DerivedCommunist Party of India (Marxist) held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 30.5% to 18.4%.
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 90.7% of the vote between them, up from 82.4% — a tighter two-way 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
1,11,164
Margin
20,491
18.43%
Candidates
7 contested · winner CPM- 1SADHANA MALLIKCommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM60,67754.6%
- 2ABSAR NURUL MONDALIndian National Congress · INC40,18636.2%
- 3ALOKE TARANGA GOSWAMIBharatiya Janata Party · BJP7,0096.3%
- 4BEJOY CHANDRA SARKARIndependent · IND1,8851.7%
- 5RAKHA HARI DASIndependent · IND9600.9%
- 6MUNSHI SAIFUR RAHAMANIndependent · IND2250.2%
- 7BIKASH NARAYAN CHOUDHURYIndependent · IND2220.2%
Since 1991
Derived- Winner then
- CPM
- Winner now
- CPM
- CPM–INC swing
- −12.0%
- CPM share
- 56.4% → 54.6%
- INC share
- 26.0% → 36.2%
- Turnout
- — → —