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68. Bharatpur

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West Bengal Assembly Election, 1996

WB-BHARATPUR

RSP 53.4%won by 13.1%INC 40.3%

What changed here

Derived

Rashtriya Sarvajan Party held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 31.8% to 13.1%.

  • Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 93.6% of the vote between them, up from 77.6% — 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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not in source
Turnout
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Valid votes
1,09,159
Margin
14,306
13.11%

Candidates

5 contested · winner RSP
  1. 1ID MAHAMMADRashtriya Sarvajan Party · RSP58,26653.4%
  2. 2SATYA NARAYAN BANERJEEIndian National Congress · INC43,96040.3%
  3. 3HARADHAN CHAKRABORTYBharatiya Janata Party · BJP5,9385.4%
  4. 4NURUL HUDAIndependent · IND7280.7%
  5. 5RATHIN BHATTACHARJEEIndependent · IND2670.2%

Since 1991

Derived
Winner then
RSP
Winner now
RSP
RSP–INC swing
−18.7%
RSP share
54.7% → 53.4%
INC share
22.9% → 40.3%
Turnout
— → —
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