Constituency
15. Dhupguri
Community mirrorWest Bengal Assembly Election, 1996
WB-DHUPGURI
CPM 49.5%won by 18.9%INC 30.6%
What changed here
DerivedCommunist Party of India (Marxist) held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 20.3% to 18.9%.
- 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
1,16,578
Margin
22,035
18.90%
Candidates
9 contested · winner CPM- 1BANAMALI ROYCommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM57,71449.5%
- 2NRIPENDRA NATH ROYIndian National Congress · INC35,67930.6%
- 3BISHNU PADA ROYBharatiya Janata Party · BJP20,78417.8%
- 4ANANDA MOHAN ROYIndependent · IND1,0270.9%
- 5JAGADA NANDA ROYIndependent · IND4270.4%
- 6RAICHARAN SIDDHYAIndependent · IND3640.3%
- 7GOBINDA ROYFBS · FBS2700.2%
- 8KHOKARAM ROY PRAMANIKIndependent · IND1800.2%
- 9HARIPADA MAJUMDARIndependent · IND1330.1%
Since 1991
Derived- Winner then
- CPM
- Winner now
- CPM
- CPM–INC swing
- −1.4%
- CPM share
- 50.6% → 49.5%
- INC share
- 30.3% → 30.6%
- Turnout
- — → —