Constituency
1. Mekliganj
Community mirrorWest Bengal Assembly Election, 1996
WB-MEKLIGANJ
FBL 32.4%won by 1.6%INC 30.9%
What changed here
DerivedFBL held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 19.0% to 1.6%.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 17.9% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 63.3% between them, down from 81.6% — 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
1,26,413
Margin
1,983
1.57%
Candidates
7 contested · winner FBL- 1RAMESH ROYFBL · FBL40,98232.4%
- 2SUNIL CHANDRA RAYIndian National Congress · INC38,99930.9%
- 3ADHIKARY PARESHFBS · FBS27,64421.9%
- 4SATISH CHANDRA RAYBharatiya Janata Party · BJP12,1099.6%
- 5ANIL ROYBahujan Samaj Party · BSP2,5082.0%
- 6NAYAN CHAND BARMANAMB · AMB2,3321.8%
- 7ABIRAM ROYIndependent · IND1,8391.5%
Since 1991
Derived- Winner then
- FBL
- Winner now
- FBL
- FBL–INC swing
- −17.5%
- FBL share
- 50.3% → 32.4%
- INC share
- 31.3% → 30.9%
- Turnout
- — → —