Constituency
5. Cooch Behar West
Community mirrorWest Bengal Assembly Election, 1996
WB-COOCH-BEHAR-WEST
FBL 48.1%won by 9.8%INC 38.3%
What changed here
DerivedFBL held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 25.6% to 9.8%.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 6.4% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
- 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
1,40,775
Margin
13,736
9.76%
Candidates
7 contested · winner FBL- 1SOUMINDRA CHANDRA DASFBL · FBL67,68648.1%
- 2AHAMMED ABDUL JALILIndian National Congress · INC53,95038.3%
- 3SHYAM CHARAN SARKARBharatiya Janata Party · BJP11,5448.2%
- 4MANIK CHANDRA DASFBS · FBS6,5144.6%
- 5NRIPEN KARJEEIndependent · IND8420.6%
- 6HARIBALA ROYAMB · AMB1410.1%
- 7ASHOKE DASIndependent · IND980.1%
Since 1991
Derived- Winner then
- FBL
- Winner now
- FBL
- FBL–INC swing
- −15.8%
- FBL share
- 54.5% → 48.1%
- INC share
- 28.9% → 38.3%
- Turnout
- — → —