Constituency
25. Siliguri
Community mirrorWest Bengal Assembly Election, 1996
WB-SILIGURI
CPM 55.3%won by 28.2%INC 27.1%
What changed here
DerivedCommunist Party of India (Marxist) held the seat; the winning margin widened from 7.2% to 28.2%.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 82.4% between them, down from 89.4% — the field split more ways.
- Safe seatCommunist Party of India (Marxist) won by more than 25 points — a stronghold, not a contest.
- Multi-cornered4 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
1,91,738
Margin
54,073
28.20%
Candidates
9 contested · winner CPM- 1ASOK BHATTACHARYACommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM1,06,06255.3%
- 2SANKAR MALAKARIndian National Congress · INC51,98927.1%
- 3M.B. MUKHERJEEBharatiya Janata Party · BJP14,4797.6%
- 4AMAR BAHADUR THAPAIndependent · IND12,3456.4%
- 5MAN SINGH RAIIndependent · IND2,5751.3%
- 6BIRENDRANATH ROYIndependent · IND1,4730.8%
- 7BISHWAMBHAR DALMIAIndependent · IND1,2610.7%
- 8ARUN PRASAD SARKARBahujan Samaj Party · BSP9410.5%
- 9DASARATH KARMAKARIndependent · IND6130.3%
Since 1991
Derived- Winner then
- CPM
- Winner now
- CPM
- CPM–INC swing
- +21.0%
- CPM share
- 48.3% → 55.3%
- INC share
- 41.1% → 27.1%
- Turnout
- — → —