Constituency
137. Baranagar
Community mirrorWest Bengal Assembly Election, 1996
WB-BARANAGAR
RSP 48.5%won by 4.5%INC 44.0%
What changed here
DerivedRashtriya Sarvajan Party held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 8.1% to 4.5%.
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 92.5% of the vote between them, up from 85.7% — 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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Turnout
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Valid votes
1,74,774
Margin
7,890
4.51%
Candidates
5 contested · winner RSPSince 1991
Derived- Winner then
- RSP
- Winner now
- RSP
- RSP–INC swing
- −3.6%
- RSP share
- 46.9% → 48.5%
- INC share
- 38.8% → 44.0%
- Turnout
- — → —