Constituency
98. Jorhat
Community mirrorAssam Assembly Election, 1996
AS-JORHAT
AGP 49.9%won by 19.9%INC 30.0%
What changed here
DerivedAsom Gana Parishad held the seat; the winning margin widened from 4.7% to 19.9%.
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 79.9% of the vote between them, up from 73.9% — 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
73,957
Margin
14,690
19.86%
Candidates
5 contested · winner AGP- 1HITENDRANATH GOSWAMIAsom Gana Parishad · AGP36,89049.9%
- 2PADMANATH SARMAIndian National Congress · INC22,20030.0%
- 3DULAL BORUAJanata Dal · JD11,28015.3%
- 4PALIT BORABharatiya Janata Party · BJP3,1474.3%
- 5TOSHESWAR DUTTAAIICT · AIICT4400.6%
Since 1991
Derived- Winner then
- AGP
- Winner now
- AGP
- AGP–INC swing
- +15.1%
- AGP share
- 39.3% → 49.9%
- INC share
- 34.6% → 30.0%
- Turnout
- — → —