Constituency
519. Jadavpur
Community mirrorWest Bengal · India Lok Sabha Election, 1996
IN-JADAVPUR
INC 47.4%won by 1.2%CPM 46.2%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Communist Party of India (Marxist) (CPM) lost it to Indian National Congress (INC), which now leads by 1.2%.
- INC vote shareINC went from 40.9% to 47.4% of the vote here (+6.5%).
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 93.6% of the vote between them, up from 87.7% — a tighter two-way contest.
- TurnoutTurnout rose 7.6% to 80.2%.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
13,13,111
Turnout
80.2%
Valid votes
10,53,127
Margin
13,038
1.24%
Candidates
11 contested · winner INC- 1KRISHNA BOSEIndian National Congress · INC4,99,25447.4%
- 2MALINI BHATTACHARYACommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM4,86,21646.2%
- 3UTTAM BOSEBharatiya Janata Party · BJP52,4705.0%
- 4ARDIHENDU SENShiv Sena · SHS5,2030.5%
- 5ABDUL SAMAD SARDARIndependent · IND2,3090.2%
- 6GHARAMI YUSUFIndian National League · INL1,9100.2%
- 7SUNIL GUHAIndependent · IND1,7900.2%
- 8RANJIT DUTTAIndependent · IND1,6780.2%
- 9RAM SAGAR ROYIndependent · IND8600.1%
- 10ANUP CHATTERJEESMP · SMP7770.1%
- 11MURARI MOHAN NASKARIndependent · IND6600.1%
Since 1991
Derived- Winner then
- CPM
- Winner now
- INCflipped
- INC–CPM swing
- +7.1%
- INC share
- 40.9% → 47.4%
- CPM share
- 46.8% → 46.2%
- Turnout
- 72.6% → 80.2%