Constituency
290. Mayureswar
Community mirrorWest Bengal Assembly Election, 1996
WB-MAYURESWAR
CPM 56.3%won by 31.7%BJP 24.6%
What changed here
DerivedCommunist Party of India (Marxist) held the seat; the winning margin widened from 14.3% to 31.7%.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 80.9% between them, down from 91.3% — the field split more ways.
- 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
1,02,703
Margin
32,518
31.66%
Candidates
4 contested · winner CPM- 1DHIREN LETCommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM57,79156.3%
- 2ARJUN SAHABharatiya Janata Party · BJP25,27324.6%
- 3ANIMA BHUIMALIIndian National Congress · INC19,01518.5%
- 4GAJAL DALUIIndependent · IND6240.6%
Since 1991
Derived- Winner then
- CPM
- Winner now
- CPM
- CPM–BJP swing
- +17.4%
- CPM share
- 52.8% → 56.3%
- BJP share
- 38.5% → 24.6%
- Turnout
- — → —