Constituency
82. Chakdaha
Community mirrorWest Bengal Assembly Election, 1996
WB-CHAKDAHA
CPM 51.7%won by 11.5%INC 40.2%
What changed here
DerivedCommunist Party of India (Marxist) held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 16.0% to 11.5%.
- Multi-cornered3 candidates cleared 5% — a genuinely multi-cornered fight.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
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Turnout
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Valid votes
1,88,629
Margin
21,616
11.46%
Candidates
7 contested · winner CPM- 1SATYASADHAN CHAKRABORTYCommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM97,45451.7%
- 2SUKUMAR SARKARIndian National Congress · INC75,83840.2%
- 3CHATTERJEE PRANAB KUMARBharatiya Janata Party · BJP10,4585.5%
- 4RAMANI MOHAN SARKARBahujan Samaj Party · BSP3,2881.7%
- 5SUKHARANJAN BHAKTAIndependent · IND9160.5%
- 6BALAICHANDRA MANDALIndependent · IND4910.3%
- 7UMESH SINGHIndependent · IND1840.1%
Since 1991
Derived- Winner then
- CPM
- Winner now
- CPM
- CPM–INC swing
- −4.5%
- CPM share
- 51.7% → 51.7%
- INC share
- 35.7% → 40.2%
- Turnout
- — → —