Election
Constituency

94. Baduria

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West Bengal Assembly Election, 1996

WB-BADURIA

INC 47.8%won by 4.3%CPM 43.5%

What changed here

Derived

Indian National Congress held the seat; the winning margin widened from 3.1% to 4.3%.

  • Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 91.4% of the vote between them, up from 83.0% — 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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not in source
Valid votes
1,23,259
Margin
5,303
4.30%

Candidates

7 contested · winner INC
  1. 1QUAZI ABDUL GUFFARIndian National Congress · INC58,96747.8%
  2. 2MD. SHELIMCommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM53,66443.5%
  3. 3PALLAB CHAUDHURIBharatiya Janata Party · BJP9,1217.4%
  4. 4AKHIL CHAKRABORTYIndependent · IND5700.5%
  5. 5SAFIKUL SOHAJIIndian National League · INL5120.4%
  6. 6DIPAK KUMAR SARKARAMB · AMB2170.2%
  7. 7MD. ASRAFF ALIIndependent · IND2080.2%

Since 1991

Derived
Winner then
INC
Winner now
INC
INC–CPM swing
+1.2%
INC share
43.1% → 47.8%
CPM share
40.0% → 43.5%
Turnout
— → —
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