Constituency
17. Mainaguri
Community mirrorWest Bengal Assembly Election, 1996
WB-MAINAGURI
RSP 54.2%won by 19.4%INC 34.8%
What changed here
DerivedRashtriya Sarvajan Party held the seat; the winning margin widened from 12.1% to 19.4%.
- 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
1,21,987
Margin
23,685
19.42%
Candidates
9 contested · winner RSP- 1BACHCHA MOHAN RAYRashtriya Sarvajan Party · RSP66,15354.2%
- 2MANMATHA RAY BASUNIAIndian National Congress · INC42,46834.8%
- 3NARAYAN CHANDRA ROYBharatiya Janata Party · BJP11,4229.4%
- 4NARENDRA NATH BARMANIndependent · IND4020.3%
- 5SURESH CHANDRA ROYIndependent · IND3710.3%
- 6CHAKRADHAR ROYIndependent · IND3340.3%
- 7GOBINDA ROYFBS · FBS2950.2%
- 8SANAT CHANDRA ROYAMB · AMB2870.2%
- 9MADHU SUDAN ROYIndependent · IND2550.2%
Since 1991
Derived- Winner then
- RSP
- Winner now
- RSP
- RSP–INC swing
- +7.3%
- RSP share
- 48.3% → 54.2%
- INC share
- 36.2% → 34.8%
- Turnout
- — → —