Constituency
162. Howrah North
Community mirrorWest Bengal Assembly Election, 1996
WB-HOWRAH-NORTH
CPM 55.2%won by 16.7%INC 38.5%
What changed here
DerivedCommunist Party of India (Marxist) held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 21.5% to 16.7%.
- 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
1,23,942
Margin
20,718
16.72%
Candidates
9 contested · winner CPM- 1LAGAN DEO SINGHCommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM68,43255.2%
- 2ASOK GHOSHIndian National Congress · INC47,71438.5%
- 3RAI BAHADUR SINGHBharatiya Janata Party · BJP6,6455.4%
- 4PARAS NATH VERMAIndependent · IND4010.3%
- 5MD. NASIMIndependent · IND1870.2%
- 6YADVENDRA MISHRAIndependent · IND1870.2%
- 7RAM NATH RAMIndependent · IND1560.1%
- 8RAMNIWAS GUPTAIndependent · IND1290.1%
- 9ANIL KUMAR SINGHIndependent · IND910.1%
Since 1991
Derived- Winner then
- CPM
- Winner now
- CPM
- CPM–INC swing
- −4.8%
- CPM share
- 57.8% → 55.2%
- INC share
- 36.3% → 38.5%
- Turnout
- — → —