Constituency
50. Farakka
Community mirrorWest Bengal Assembly Election, 1996
WB-FARAKKA
INC 46.4%won by 6.6%CPM 39.9%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Communist Party of India (Marxist) (CPM) lost it to Indian National Congress (INC), which now leads by 6.6%.
- INC vote shareINC went from 32.4% to 46.4% of the vote here (+14.0%).
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 86.3% of the vote between them, up from 71.0% — a tighter two-way contest.
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Electorate
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Turnout
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Valid votes
1,15,158
Margin
7,563
6.57%
Candidates
9 contested · winner INC- 1MAINUL HAQUEIndian National Congress · INC53,48046.4%
- 2ABUL HASNAT KHANCommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM45,91739.9%
- 3SASTI CHARAN GHOSHBharatiya Janata Party · BJP11,0359.6%
- 4PARICHAY DAS GUPTAIndependent · IND1,8631.6%
- 5KHAIRUL ALAMBahujan Samaj Party · BSP8930.8%
- 6ATAUR RAHAMANIndependent · IND8310.7%
- 7ABDUL MALEKMUL · MUL5240.5%
- 8NURAN NABIIndependent · IND4840.4%
- 9AMAL KUMAR BISWASIndependent · IND1310.1%
Since 1991
Derived- Winner then
- CPM
- Winner now
- INCflipped
- INC–CPM swing
- +12.7%
- INC share
- 32.4% → 46.4%
- CPM share
- 38.6% → 39.9%
- Turnout
- — → —