Constituency
90. Barasat
Community mirrorWest Bengal Assembly Election, 1996
WB-BARASAT
INC 46.9%won by 0.8%FBL 46.1%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: FBL (FBL) lost it to Indian National Congress (INC), which now leads by 0.8%.
- INC vote shareINC went from 33.0% to 46.9% of the vote here (+13.9%).
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 93.0% of the vote between them, up from 79.5% — 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
2,27,110
Margin
1,838
0.81%
Candidates
6 contested · winner INC- 1ASHOKE MUKHERJEEIndian National Congress · INC1,06,47146.9%
- 2SARAL DEBFBL · FBL1,04,63346.1%
- 3SWAPAN PAULBharatiya Janata Party · BJP12,0775.3%
- 4KASHISWAR SARKARBahujan Samaj Party · BSP2,7461.2%
- 5UTPAL CHOWDHURYShiv Sena · SHS8690.4%
- 6HARENDRA PODDARIndependent · IND3140.1%
Since 1991
Derived- Winner then
- FBL
- Winner now
- INCflipped
- INC–FBL swing
- +14.4%
- INC share
- 33.0% → 46.9%
- FBL share
- 46.6% → 46.1%
- Turnout
- — → —