Constituency
1. Ratabari
Community mirrorAssam Assembly Election, 1996
AS-RATABARI
BJP 32.7%won by 1.3%CPM 31.4%
What changed here
DerivedBharatiya Janata Party held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 14.6% to 1.3%.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 10.6% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 64.1% between them, down from 71.9% — the field split more ways.
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
71,755
Margin
900
1.25%
Candidates
8 contested · winner BJP- 1SAMBHUSING MALLAHBharatiya Janata Party · BJP23,46332.7%
- 2RATHISH RANJAN CHOUDHURYCommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM22,56331.4%
- 3LILAMOY DASIndian National Congress · INC18,26925.5%
- 4RAMPYARE RABIDASIndependent · IND5,1367.2%
- 5AKHIL DASJanata Dal · JD6861.0%
- 6NARAYAN RABIDASIndependent · IND6790.9%
- 7GOPAL HARIZANAIICT · AIICT5300.7%
- 8KUMARI RABIDASIndependent · IND4290.6%
Since 1991
Derived- Winner then
- BJP
- Winner now
- BJP
- BJP–CPM swing
- −13.4%
- BJP share
- 43.3% → 32.7%
- CPM share
- 28.6% → 31.4%
- Turnout
- — → —