Constituency
294. Murarai
Community mirrorWest Bengal Assembly Election, 1996
WB-MURARAI
INC 49.4%won by 4.6%CPM 44.8%
What changed here
DerivedIndian National Congress held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 5.2% to 4.6%.
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 94.1% of the vote between them, up from 84.4% — 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
1,14,691
Margin
5,281
4.60%
Candidates
4 contested · winner INC- 1MOTAHAR HOSSAINIndian National Congress · INC56,61649.4%
- 2MOYAZZEM HOSSAINCommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM51,33544.8%
- 3BAIDYANATH DUTTABharatiya Janata Party · BJP4,2523.7%
- 4RAFIQUL HASANIndependent · IND2,4882.2%
Since 1991
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- INC
- INC–CPM swing
- −0.6%
- INC share
- 44.8% → 49.4%
- CPM share
- 39.6% → 44.8%
- Turnout
- — → —