Constituency
521. Dum Dum
Community mirrorWest Bengal · India Lok Sabha Election, 1996
IN-DUM-DUM
CPM 47.4%won by 4.8%INC 42.6%
What changed here
DerivedCommunist Party of India (Marxist) held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 10.8% to 4.8%.
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 90.0% of the vote between them, up from 81.4% — a tighter two-way contest.
- TurnoutTurnout rose 6.1% to 79.3%.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
15,44,506
Turnout
79.3%
Valid votes
12,24,721
Margin
58,291
4.76%
Candidates
7 contested · winner CPM- 1NIRMAL KANTI CHATTERJEECommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM5,80,45547.4%
- 2ASHUTOSH LAHAIndian National Congress · INC5,22,16442.6%
- 3DIBAKAR KUNDUBharatiya Janata Party · BJP1,07,5018.8%
- 4SURENDRA NATH BISWASBahujan Samaj Party · BSP6,4570.5%
- 5ASHOKE DEB CHOWDHURYIndependent · IND4,8580.4%
- 6MILON KANTI CHOUDHARIIndependent · IND2,2180.2%
- 7JHOTON ROYIndependent · IND1,0680.1%
Since 1991
Derived- Winner then
- CPM
- Winner now
- CPM
- CPM–INC swing
- −6.1%
- CPM share
- 46.1% → 47.4%
- INC share
- 35.3% → 42.6%
- Turnout
- 73.2% → 79.3%