Who won Dantan in the 1996 Assembly election?

NANDA GOPAL BHATTACHARJEE of the Communist Party of India (CPI) won Dantan in the 1996 Assembly election with 77,024 votes (63.8% vote share), a margin of 48,385 votes over the runner-up.

Constituency

228. Dantan

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West Bengal Assembly Election, 1996

WB-DANTAN

CPI 63.8%won by 40.1%INC 23.7%

What changed here

Derived

The seat changed hands: Communist Party of India (Marxist) (CPM) lost it to Communist Party of India (CPI), which now leads by 40.1%.

CPI vote shareCPI went from 0.0% to 63.8% of the vote here (+63.8%).
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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not in source

Turnout

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not in source

Valid votes

1,20,703

Margin

48,385

40.09%

Candidates

4 contested · winner CPI

1NANDA GOPAL BHATTACHARJEE Communist Party of India · CPI77,02463.8%
2SUNIL BARAN GIRI Indian National Congress · INC28,63923.7%
3ABINASH DAS Bharatiya Janata Party · BJP14,61412.1%
4BIRENDRA NATH KHATUA Independent · IND4260.4%

Since 1991

Derived

Winner then: CPM
Winner now: CPIflipped
CPI–INC swing: +59.7%
CPI share: 0.0% → 63.8%
INC share: 19.6% → 23.7%
Turnout: — → —

227. Narayangarh 229. Nayagram

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