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58. Murshidabad

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West Bengal Assembly Election, 1996

WB-MURSHIDABAD

IND 35.1%won by 5.5%INC 29.7%

What changed here

Derived

The seat changed hands: FBL (FBL) lost it to Independent (IND), which now leads by 5.5%.

  • IND vote shareIND went from 2.2% to 35.1% of the vote here (+32.9%).
  • Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 64.8% between them, down from 80.5% — the field split more ways.

Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.

Electorate
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not in source
Turnout
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Valid votes
1,53,791
Margin
8,412
5.47%

Candidates

13 contested · winner IND
  1. 1MOZAMMEL HAQUEIndependent · IND54,04935.1%
  2. 2ABDUL OHAB MONDALIndian National Congress · INC45,63729.7%
  3. 3CHHAYA GHOSHFBL · FBL44,77129.1%
  4. 4JYOTSNA KUMAR DUTTABharatiya Janata Party · BJP5,8503.8%
  5. 5ABDUL MUTTALABBahujan Samaj Party · BSP1,6951.1%
  6. 6ABDUL JABBAR SARKARIndependent · IND9350.6%
  7. 7MD. AZMAL HAQUEIndependent · IND1860.1%
  8. 8SANKAR SAHAIndependent · IND1370.1%
  9. 9REJUANUL HAQUEIndependent · IND1330.1%
  10. 10SEKHAR GHOSHIndependent · IND1270.1%
  11. 11TARUN KANTI SARKARIndependent · IND1030.1%
  12. 12ARUP ROYFBS · FBS870.1%
  13. 13SARKAR SHERALIIndependent · IND810.1%

Since 1991

Derived
Winner then
FBL
Winner now
INDflipped
IND–INC swing
+35.1%
IND share
2.2% → 35.1%
INC share
31.8% → 29.7%
Turnout
— → —
57. Nabagram59. Jalangi
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