Constituency
527. Serampore
Community mirrorWest Bengal · India Lok Sabha Election, 1996
IN-SERAMPORE
INC 46.4%won by 0.6%CPM 45.9%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Communist Party of India (Marxist) (CPM) lost it to Indian National Congress (INC), which now leads by 0.6%.
- INC vote shareINC went from 40.6% to 46.4% of the vote here (+5.8%).
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 92.3% of the vote between them, up from 86.8% — a tighter two-way contest.
- TurnoutTurnout rose 6.7% to 77.4%.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
12,49,680
Turnout
77.4%
Valid votes
9,67,348
Margin
5,463
0.56%
Candidates
7 contested · winner INC- 1PRADIP BHATTACHARYAIndian National Congress · INC4,49,20546.4%
- 2SUDARSAN ROY CHAUDHURICommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM4,43,74245.9%
- 3DEBABRATA CHOWDHARYBharatiya Janata Party · BJP60,1226.2%
- 4SWARAJ MUKHOPADHYAYAIICT · AIICT9,6001.0%
- 5SHARAD GOUTAMIndependent · IND2,6730.3%
- 6GOPAL SARKARIndependent · IND1,1990.1%
- 7ASIT KUMAR MUKHOPADHYAYIndependent · IND8070.1%
Since 1991
Derived- Winner then
- CPM
- Winner now
- INCflipped
- INC–CPM swing
- +6.2%
- INC share
- 40.6% → 46.4%
- CPM share
- 46.2% → 45.9%
- Turnout
- 70.8% → 77.4%