Constituency
32. Kaliaganj
Community mirrorWest Bengal Assembly Election, 1996
WB-KALIAGANJ
INC 43.0%won by 3.8%CPM 39.2%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Communist Party of India (Marxist) (CPM) lost it to Indian National Congress (INC), which now leads by 3.8%.
- INC vote shareINC went from 38.3% to 43.0% of the vote here (+4.7%).
- 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
1,29,072
Margin
4,955
3.84%
Candidates
7 contested · winner INC- 1PRAMATHA NATH RAYIndian National Congress · INC55,50043.0%
- 2RAMANI KANTA DEBSARMACommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM50,54539.2%
- 3RAMENDRA ROY (UDAY)Bharatiya Janata Party · BJP17,44913.5%
- 4JITEN CHOUHANCpi(M (L)L) · CPIMLL3,1042.4%
- 5BISNUPADA BARMANIndependent · IND1,4601.1%
- 6PACHU DEBSARMAIndependent · IND6780.5%
- 7GOURHARI BARMANAMB · AMB3360.3%
Since 1991
Derived- Winner then
- CPM
- Winner now
- INCflipped
- INC–CPM swing
- +4.4%
- INC share
- 38.3% → 43.0%
- CPM share
- 38.9% → 39.2%
- Turnout
- — → —