Constituency
101. Basanti
Community mirrorWest Bengal Assembly Election, 1996
WB-BASANTI
RSP 51.2%won by 6.9%INC 44.2%
What changed here
DerivedRashtriya Sarvajan Party held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 21.7% to 6.9%.
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 95.4% of the vote between them, up from 78.4% — 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
1,36,442
Margin
9,462
6.93%
Candidates
5 contested · winner RSP- 1SUBHAS NASKARRashtriya Sarvajan Party · RSP69,83451.2%
- 2JAYANTA NASKARIndian National Congress · INC60,37244.2%
- 3ARABINDU HALDERBharatiya Janata Party · BJP4,6553.4%
- 4BAIDYA NATH BARIndependent · IND1,4251.0%
- 5KAMAL KRISHNA MONDALIndependent · IND1560.1%
Since 1991
Derived- Winner then
- RSP
- Winner now
- RSP
- RSP–INC swing
- −14.8%
- RSP share
- 50.0% → 51.2%
- INC share
- 28.3% → 44.2%
- Turnout
- — → —