Constituency
523. Calcutta North East
Community mirrorWest Bengal · India Lok Sabha Election, 1996
IN-CALCUTTA-NORTH-EAST
INC 52.0%won by 10.1%CPM 41.9%
What changed here
DerivedIndian National Congress held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 12.8% to 10.1%.
- New challengerCommunist Party of India (Marxist) (CPM) finished second with 41.9% — it did not contest here in 1991.
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 93.9% of the vote between them, up from 86.2% — a tighter two-way contest.
- TurnoutTurnout rose 6.2% to 71.2%.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
9,07,284
Turnout
71.2%
Valid votes
6,46,065
Margin
64,985
10.06%
Candidates
12 contested · winner INC- 1AJIT KUMAR PANJAIndian National Congress · INC3,35,85552.0%
- 2DIPEN GHOSHCommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM2,70,87041.9%
- 3SUBHAS MAITRABharatiya Janata Party · BJP33,2465.1%
- 4TAPAN KUMAR SARKARIndependent · IND2,0940.3%
- 5HARI NARAYAN RAYIndependent · IND9980.2%
- 6TIWARI SALIL KUMARAIICT · AIICT6160.1%
- 7UDAI PRATAP SINGHIndependent · IND6110.1%
- 8SUBHAS DHARIndependent · IND5410.1%
- 9RADHESHYAM YADAVIndependent · IND4290.1%
- 10JAYANTA BHOWMICKIndependent · IND2920.0%
- 11AGARWAL MOHANLALIndependent · IND2780.0%
- 12ACHINTA JANAIndependent · IND2350.0%
Since 1991
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- INC
- INC–CPM swing
- −39.5%
- INC share
- 49.5% → 52.0%
- CPM share
- 0.0% → 41.9%
- Turnout
- 65.0% → 71.2%