Constituency
38. Balurghat
Community mirrorWest Bengal Assembly Election, 1996
WB-BALURGHAT
RSP 47.9%won by 7.5%INC 40.4%
What changed here
DerivedRashtriya Sarvajan Party held the seat; the winning margin held roughly steady from 7.4% to 7.5%.
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 88.4% of the vote between them, up from 81.8% — 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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Turnout
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Valid votes
1,15,121
Margin
8,621
7.49%
Candidates
8 contested · winner RSP- 1CHOUDHURY BISWANATHRashtriya Sarvajan Party · RSP55,18347.9%
- 2KHAN BIPLABIndian National Congress · INC46,56240.4%
- 3MAHABIR PROSAD SARAOGIBharatiya Janata Party · BJP11,96410.4%
- 4SACHIN MARDIIndependent · IND5300.5%
- 5NARAYAN CHANDRA BARMANIndependent · IND2890.3%
- 6PROBODH KUMAR BARMANIndependent · IND2610.2%
- 7DHIRENDRA NATH SINGHIndependent · IND2380.2%
- 8ASHWINI KUMAR MAJUMDERIndependent · IND940.1%
Since 1991
Derived- Winner then
- RSP
- Winner now
- RSP
- RSP–INC swing
- +0.1%
- RSP share
- 44.6% → 47.9%
- INC share
- 37.2% → 40.4%
- Turnout
- — → —