Election
Constituency

95. Basirhat

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West Bengal Assembly Election, 1996

WB-BASIRHAT

CPM 44.8%won by 0.1%INC 44.6%

What changed here

Derived

Communist 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.

Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.

Electorate
not in source
Turnout
not in source
Valid votes
1,48,171
Margin
181
0.12%

Since 1991

Derived
Winner then
CPM
Winner now
CPM
CPMINC swing
−1.7%
CPM share
40.0% 44.8%
INC share
38.1% 44.6%
Turnout