Constituency
42. Harishchandrapur
Community mirrorWest Bengal Assembly Election, 1996
WB-HARISHCHANDRAPUR
FBL 47.0%won by 2.1%INC 44.9%
What changed here
DerivedFBL held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 11.5% to 2.1%.
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 91.9% of the vote between them, up from 79.2% — 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
1,20,073
Margin
2,489
2.07%
Candidates
9 contested · winner FBL- 1BIRENDRA KUMAR MAITRAFBL · FBL56,42947.0%
- 2ALAM MOSTAQUEIndian National Congress · INC53,94044.9%
- 3RAGHU NATH RAMBharatiya Janata Party · BJP4,6303.9%
- 4KASHI DASIndependent · IND2,2561.9%
- 5JAYANTI JHAIndependent · IND1,1250.9%
- 6RATHINDRA NATH PAULIndependent · IND9410.8%
- 7PABAN AGARWALAIndependent · IND4470.4%
- 8SAHADEB MANDALFBS · FBS1730.1%
- 9SATTARIndependent · IND1320.1%
Since 1991
Derived- Winner then
- FBL
- Winner now
- FBL
- FBL–INC swing
- −9.4%
- FBL share
- 45.3% → 47.0%
- INC share
- 33.9% → 44.9%
- Turnout
- — → —