Constituency
289. Mahammad Bazar
Community mirrorWest Bengal Assembly Election, 1996
WB-MAHAMMAD-BAZAR
CPM 56.4%won by 23.3%INC 33.1%
What changed here
DerivedCommunist Party of India (Marxist) held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 32.8% to 23.3%.
- Runner-up changedSecond place passed from Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) to Indian National Congress (INC).
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 89.5% of the vote between them, up from 79.6% — 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
1,16,677
Margin
27,141
23.26%
Candidates
12 contested · winner CPM- 1DHIREN SENCommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM65,81256.4%
- 2RAJARAM GHOSHIndian National Congress · INC38,67133.1%
- 3NIRMAL CHANDRA MONDALBharatiya Janata Party · BJP7,7836.7%
- 4NABA KUMAR DALUIJharkhand Mukti Morcha · JMM2,1261.8%
- 5KUDDUS ALIIndependent · IND7660.7%
- 6CHANDRADHAR PALIndependent · IND5170.4%
- 7CHANDIKA YADAVIndependent · IND3020.3%
- 8CHITTARANJAN HANSDAIndependent · IND2540.2%
- 9KALISANKAR GHOSHIndependent · IND2020.2%
- 10SUBHAS CHANDRA MUKHERJEEIndependent · IND1110.1%
- 11DEBRANJAN RAYIndependent · IND790.1%
- 12DULAL CHANDRA MONDALIndependent · IND540.0%
Since 1991
Derived- Winner then
- CPM
- Winner now
- CPM
- CPM–INC swing
- −13.8%
- CPM share
- 56.2% → 56.4%
- INC share
- 19.2% → 33.1%
- Turnout
- — → —