Constituency
509. Jangipur
Community mirrorWest Bengal · India Lok Sabha Election, 1996
IN-JANGIPUR
INC 45.6%won by 1.5%CPM 44.0%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Communist Party of India (Marxist) (CPM) lost it to Indian National Congress (INC), which now leads by 1.5%.
- INC vote shareINC went from 36.1% to 45.6% of the vote here (+9.5%).
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 89.6% of the vote between them, up from 78.7% — a tighter two-way contest.
- TurnoutTurnout rose 6.9% to 82.4%.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
10,47,225
Turnout
82.4%
Valid votes
8,62,501
Margin
13,122
1.52%
Candidates
11 contested · winner INC- 1MD. IDRIS ALIIndian National Congress · INC3,92,94245.6%
- 2ABEDIN ZAINALCommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM3,79,82044.0%
- 3SHYAMAL GUPTABharatiya Janata Party · BJP66,0957.7%
- 4ABDUS SAYEEDIndependent · IND8,2551.0%
- 5SMT. JAHERA BEGUMIndependent · IND5,1370.6%
- 6ZAKIR HOSSAINBMSM · BMSM2,8340.3%
- 7DILIP DASIndependent · IND1,9860.2%
- 8MD. ISRAILMUL · MUL1,7350.2%
- 9ABDUL HANNANPBRML · PBRML1,5450.2%
- 10DEBABRATA GUPTAIndependent · IND1,4050.2%
- 11ANESUR RAHAMANSamajwadi Andolan Party · SAP7470.1%
Since 1991
Derived- Winner then
- CPM
- Winner now
- INCflipped
- INC–CPM swing
- +8.1%
- INC share
- 36.1% → 45.6%
- CPM share
- 42.6% → 44.0%
- Turnout
- 75.4% → 82.4%