Constituency
15. Katigora
Community mirrorAssam Assembly Election, 1996
AS-KATIGORA
BJP 33.4%won by 8.0%INC 25.4%
What changed here
DerivedBharatiya Janata Party held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 22.1% to 8.0%.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 12.4% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
- Runner-up changedSecond place passed from Communist Party of India (Marxist) (CPM) to Indian National Congress (INC).
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 58.9% between them, down from 69.6% — 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
81,328
Margin
6,493
7.98%
Candidates
11 contested · winner BJP- 1KALI RANJAN DEBBharatiya Janata Party · BJP27,18033.4%
- 2ANIL CH. DEYIndian National Congress · INC20,68725.4%
- 3SANJIB SIKIDARCommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM16,51420.3%
- 4BIJOY LAL DEBIndependent · IND5,7487.1%
- 5KHALILUR RAHMAN MIRAIndependent · IND5,1616.3%
- 6MUZAMMIL ALI LASKARAIICT · AIICT2,3112.8%
- 7HAJI SIRAJ UDDIN LASKARIndependent · IND1,5571.9%
- 8ARUN KARMAKARURMCA · URMCA9231.1%
- 9ABDUL HAMID MAZUMDERIndependent · IND6930.9%
- 10KESHA CH. DASIndependent · IND4720.6%
- 11JIBAN KR. ADHIKARIAMB · AMB820.1%
Since 1991
Derived- Winner then
- BJP
- Winner now
- BJP
- BJP–INC swing
- −27.4%
- BJP share
- 45.8% → 33.4%
- INC share
- 10.5% → 25.4%
- Turnout
- — → —