Constituency
537. Vishnupur
Community mirrorWest Bengal · India Lok Sabha Election, 1996
IN-VISHNUPUR
CPM 58.1%won by 32.1%INC 26.0%
What changed here
DerivedCommunist Party of India (Marxist) held the seat; the winning margin widened from 26.4% to 32.1%.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 84.1% between them, down from 90.7% — the field split more ways.
- TurnoutTurnout rose 4.6% to 81.7%.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
10,11,830
Turnout
81.7%
Valid votes
8,26,965
Margin
2,65,846
32.15%
Candidates
6 contested · winner CPM- 1SANDHYA BAURICommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM4,80,77758.1%
- 2ASHIS RAJAKIndian National Congress · INC2,14,93126.0%
- 3PRAVAKAR MONDALBharatiya Janata Party · BJP79,3579.6%
- 4PRASANTA MALLIKIndependent · IND29,7633.6%
- 5ASWINI DULEYIndependent · IND19,0372.3%
- 6RANJIT NAMATAIndependent · IND3,1000.4%
Since 1991
Derived- Winner then
- CPM
- Winner now
- CPM
- CPM–INC swing
- +5.8%
- CPM share
- 58.6% → 58.1%
- INC share
- 32.2% → 26.0%
- Turnout
- 77.1% → 81.7%