Constituency
247. Indpur
Community mirrorWest Bengal Assembly Election, 1996
WB-INDPUR
CPI 59.2%won by 43.6%INC 15.6%
What changed here
DerivedCommunist Party of India held the seat; the winning margin widened from 37.2% to 43.6%.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 74.9% between them, down from 85.2% — the field split more ways.
- Safe seatCommunist Party of India won by more than 25 points — a stronghold, not a contest.
- 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
1,02,131
Margin
44,516
43.59%
Candidates
9 contested · winner CPI- 1KIRITY BAGDICommunist Party of India · CPI60,48259.2%
- 2LAYEK BIBEKANANDAIndian National Congress · INC15,96615.6%
- 3JAYANTA MONDALBharatiya Janata Party · BJP13,03712.8%
- 4BALARAM BOURIIndependent · IND4,8524.8%
- 5LOHAR GOUR CHANDRAIndependent · IND3,8153.7%
- 6DURGA PADA BAURIJharkhand Mukti Morcha · JMM2,7822.7%
- 7SIBILA BAURIIndependent · IND5170.5%
- 8MOHAN CHANDRA MANDALIndependent · IND3490.3%
- 9GOPAL CHANDRA RAJAKIndependent · IND3310.3%
Since 1991
Derived- Winner then
- CPI
- Winner now
- CPI
- CPI–INC swing
- +6.4%
- CPI share
- 61.2% → 59.2%
- INC share
- 24.0% → 15.6%
- Turnout
- — → —