Constituency
95. Basirhat
Community mirrorWest Bengal Assembly Election, 1996
WB-BASIRHAT
CPM 44.8%won by 0.1%INC 44.6%
What changed here
DerivedCommunist Party of India (Marxist) held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 1.9% to 0.1%.
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 89.4% of the vote between them, up from 78.1% — a tighter two-way contest.
- Knife-edgeDecided by 181 votes (0.12%) — among the closest results anywhere.
- Multi-cornered3 candidates cleared 5% — a genuinely multi-cornered fight.
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Electorate
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Turnout
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Valid votes
1,48,171
Margin
181
0.12%
Candidates
7 contested · winner CPM- 1NARAYAN MUKHERJEECommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM66,32944.8%
- 2ASIT MAZUMDERIndian National Congress · INC66,14844.6%
- 3ANINDYA GOPAL MITRABharatiya Janata Party · BJP12,7398.6%
- 4MOLLA JAFRULLAIndian National League · INL2,2481.5%
- 5MONDAL NUR BOXIndependent · IND2470.2%
- 6AMITESH DEYIndependent · IND2370.2%
- 7AMAL KUMAR BANERJEEIndependent · IND2230.2%
Since 1991
Derived- Winner then
- CPM
- Winner now
- CPM
- CPM–INC swing
- −1.7%
- CPM share
- 40.0% → 44.8%
- INC share
- 38.1% → 44.6%
- Turnout
- — → —