Constituency
285. Labhpur
Community mirrorWest Bengal Assembly Election, 1996
WB-LABHPUR
CPM 60.5%won by 27.5%INC 33.0%
What changed here
DerivedCommunist Party of India (Marxist) held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 35.8% to 27.5%.
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 93.5% of the vote between them, up from 80.6% — a tighter two-way contest.
- Safe seatCommunist Party of India (Marxist) won by more than 25 points — a stronghold, not a 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
1,06,457
Margin
29,228
27.46%
Candidates
6 contested · winner CPM- 1MANIK CHANDRA MONDALCommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM64,38360.5%
- 2DEB RANJAN MUKHOPADHAYAYIndian National Congress · INC35,15533.0%
- 3SHAMBHU NATH DEBANGSHIBharatiya Janata Party · BJP6,0375.7%
- 4MANDAL GANAPATIIndependent · IND4430.4%
- 5MANDAL RABINDRA NATHSamajwadi Andolan Party · SAP2250.2%
- 6BANAMALI SILIndependent · IND2140.2%
Since 1991
Derived- Winner then
- CPM
- Winner now
- CPM
- CPM–INC swing
- −8.4%
- CPM share
- 58.2% → 60.5%
- INC share
- 22.4% → 33.0%
- Turnout
- — → —