Constituency
9. Silchar
Community mirrorAssam Assembly Election, 1996
AS-SILCHAR
BJP 43.4%won by 1.6%INC 41.8%
What changed here
DerivedBharatiya Janata Party held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 15.5% to 1.6%.
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 85.3% of the vote between them, up from 68.6% — a tighter two-way 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
97,438
Margin
1,519
1.56%
Candidates
13 contested · winner BJP- 1BIMALANGSHU ROYBharatiya Janata Party · BJP42,29343.4%
- 2KAMALENDU BHATTACHARJEEIndian National Congress · INC40,77441.8%
- 3DULAL MITRACommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM10,66010.9%
- 4TARAMONI CHOUDHURYIndependent · IND1,1591.2%
- 5NILOTPOL CHOUDHURYAIICT · AIICT8640.9%
- 6PREMANANDA BAISNAVAMB · AMB3140.3%
- 7ARIKON NESSAIndependent · IND3060.3%
- 8TAYABUR RAHMAN BARBHUIYAIndependent · IND2500.3%
- 9AJOY ROYIndependent · IND2480.3%
- 10NIRENDRA DEYIndependent · IND1960.2%
- 11HIRONMOY ROYIndependent · IND1480.2%
- 12CHITTA RANJAN SUKLABAIDYAIndependent · IND1420.1%
- 13NIRMAL JYOTI CHAKRABORTYIndependent · IND840.1%
Since 1991
Derived- Winner then
- BJP
- Winner now
- BJP
- BJP–INC swing
- −14.0%
- BJP share
- 42.1% → 43.4%
- INC share
- 26.5% → 41.8%
- Turnout
- — → —