Constituency
78. Santipur
Community mirrorWest Bengal Assembly Election, 1996
WB-SANTIPUR
INC 49.3%won by 6.5%RCPIR 42.7%
What changed here
DerivedIndian National Congress held the seat; the winning margin widened from 1.1% to 6.5%.
- New challengerRCPIR (RCPIR) finished second with 42.7% — it did not contest here in 1991.
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 92.0% of the vote between them, up from 86.7% — 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
1,58,618
Margin
10,370
6.54%
Candidates
5 contested · winner INC- 1AJOY DEIndian National Congress · INC78,16349.3%
- 2BIMALANANDA MUKHERJEERCPIR · RCPIR67,79342.7%
- 3MALAY KUMAR PRAMANICKBharatiya Janata Party · BJP11,6227.3%
- 4MANMOHAN SARKARIndependent · IND8290.5%
- 5SACHINDRANATH BHATTACHARYAIndependent · IND2110.1%
Since 1991
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- INC
- INC–RCPIR swing
- −37.4%
- INC share
- 43.9% → 49.3%
- RCPIR share
- 0.0% → 42.7%
- Turnout
- — → —