Constituency
31. Raiganj
Community mirrorWest Bengal Assembly Election, 1996
WB-RAIGANJ
INC 39.2%won by 1.6%CPM 37.6%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Communist Party of India (Marxist) (CPM) lost it to Indian National Congress (INC), which now leads by 1.6%.
- INC vote shareINC went from 33.0% to 39.2% of the vote here (+6.1%).
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 76.8% of the vote between them, up from 70.3% — a tighter two-way contest.
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
1,43,452
Margin
2,290
1.60%
Candidates
8 contested · winner INC- 1DILIP KUMAR DASIndian National Congress · INC56,20339.2%
- 2KHAGENDRA NATH SINHACommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM53,91337.6%
- 3SURESH CHANDRA DASBharatiya Janata Party · BJP24,14016.8%
- 4AJIT DASCpi(M (L)L) · CPIMLL6,3444.4%
- 5MADAN SAHAIndependent · IND9590.7%
- 6GIRIJA MOHAN ROYBahujan Samaj Party · BSP8840.6%
- 7MATIN BARMANIndependent · IND5530.4%
- 8LADHU BARMANAMB · AMB4560.3%
Since 1991
Derived- Winner then
- CPM
- Winner now
- INCflipped
- INC–CPM swing
- +5.8%
- INC share
- 33.0% → 39.2%
- CPM share
- 37.3% → 37.6%
- Turnout
- — → —