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12. Alipurduars

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West Bengal Assembly Election, 1996

WB-ALIPURDUARS

RSP 52.4%won by 12.6%INC 39.8%

What changed here

Derived

Rashtriya Sarvajan Party held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 13.3% to 12.6%.

  • Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 92.2% of the vote between them, up from 84.9% — 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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not in source
Turnout
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not in source
Valid votes
1,30,632
Margin
16,491
12.62%

Candidates

6 contested · winner RSP
  1. 1NIRMAL DASRashtriya Sarvajan Party · RSP68,47652.4%
  2. 2MANINDRALAL RAKSHITIndian National Congress · INC51,98539.8%
  3. 3GANESH SIKDERBharatiya Janata Party · BJP8,8526.8%
  4. 4NIKHIL CHANDRA RAYBIRIndependent · IND5230.4%
  5. 5PROBHAT ADHIKARYAMB · AMB4440.3%
  6. 6SANTU KARMAKARIndependent · IND3520.3%

Since 1991

Derived
Winner then
RSP
Winner now
RSP
RSP–INC swing
−0.7%
RSP share
49.1% → 52.4%
INC share
35.8% → 39.8%
Turnout
— → —
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