Constituency
4. Cooch Behar North
Community mirrorWest Bengal Assembly Election, 1996
WB-COOCH-BEHAR-NORTH
INC 47.2%won by 5.5%FBL 41.8%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: FBL (FBL) lost it to Indian National Congress (INC), which now leads by 5.5%.
- INC vote shareINC went from 37.4% to 47.2% of the vote here (+9.9%).
- 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
1,25,665
Margin
6,864
5.46%
Candidates
8 contested · winner INC- 1MIHIR GOSWAMIIndian National Congress · INC59,37547.2%
- 2APARAJITA GOPPIFBL · FBL52,51141.8%
- 3HARIPADA PAULBharatiya Janata Party · BJP10,0708.0%
- 4BIMAL KANTI BASUFBS · FBS1,7031.4%
- 5PAPIYA BARMANBahujan Samaj Party · BSP1,2681.0%
- 6BADAL ROYIndependent · IND3280.3%
- 7NIRENDRA PRASAD KARJEEAMB · AMB2380.2%
- 8SUBHAS CHAKRABORTYIndependent · IND1720.1%
Since 1991
Derived- Winner then
- FBL
- Winner now
- INCflipped
- INC–FBL swing
- +15.4%
- INC share
- 37.4% → 47.2%
- FBL share
- 47.3% → 41.8%
- Turnout
- — → —