Constituency
267. Ausgram
Community mirrorWest Bengal Assembly Election, 1996
WB-AUSGRAM
CPM 66.2%won by 39.5%INC 26.7%
What changed here
DerivedCommunist Party of India (Marxist) held the seat; the winning margin held roughly steady from 39.1% to 39.5%.
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 92.9% of the vote between them, up from 87.6% — a tighter two-way contest.
- Safe seatCommunist Party of India (Marxist) 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
1,22,797
Margin
48,481
39.48%
Candidates
5 contested · winner CPM- 1KARTICK CHANDRA BAGCommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM81,27866.2%
- 2SUKUMAR SAHAIndian National Congress · INC32,79726.7%
- 3SAILEN MAZUMDARBharatiya Janata Party · BJP7,5886.2%
- 4ASOKE MAJIShiv Sena · SHS8500.7%
- 5SRIDHAR MAJHIIndependent · IND2840.2%
Since 1991
Derived- Winner then
- CPM
- Winner now
- CPM
- CPM–INC swing
- +0.3%
- CPM share
- 63.4% → 66.2%
- INC share
- 24.2% → 26.7%
- Turnout
- — → —