Constituency
143. Jorasanko
Community mirrorWest Bengal Assembly Election, 1996
WB-JORASANKO
INC 49.7%won by 16.1%FBL 33.6%
What changed here
DerivedIndian National Congress held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 18.5% to 16.1%.
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 83.3% of the vote between them, up from 72.8% — 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
47,824
Margin
7,714
16.13%
Candidates
22 contested · winner INC- 1DEOKINANDAN PODDARIndian National Congress · INC23,78749.7%
- 2SATISH NARAYAN BAJAJFBL · FBL16,07333.6%
- 3NANDALAL SINGHANIABharatiya Janata Party · BJP6,29713.2%
- 4MANSOOR AHMEDIndependent · IND5931.2%
- 5KANAI CHANDRA PALIndependent · IND2140.4%
- 6RAJENDRA SONKARIndependent · IND1130.2%
- 7VINOD SURANAIndependent · IND940.2%
- 8NARESH CH. SHARMAIndependent · IND770.2%
- 9SAMBHU NATH GANGULIAkhil Bharat Hindu Mahasabha · ABHM680.1%
- 10ABHAY SHANKAR ROYIndependent · IND590.1%
- 11KEDAR NATH JHASamajwadi Andolan Party · SAP550.1%
- 12KRISHNA KUMAR SHARMAIndependent · IND540.1%
- 13SATYA VYASABJS · ABJS490.1%
- 14GUPTA BINOY KUMARAIICT · AIICT490.1%
- 15SHYAM SUNDAR SHARMAIndependent · IND460.1%
- 16AKHTAR ALAMIndependent · IND460.1%
- 17NIRMAL KUMAR BHARTIAIndependent · IND390.1%
- 18BHOLANATH GUPTA (MUNNA)Independent · IND340.1%
- 19JATINDER NATH BARALIndependent · IND320.1%
- 20LAL BAHADUR VERMAIndependent · IND260.1%
- 21RATHOR SEWA SINGHIndependent · IND120.0%
- 22SURESH KUMAR MURGAIIndependent · IND70.0%
Since 1991
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- INC
- INC–FBL swing
- −2.4%
- INC share
- 45.6% → 49.7%
- FBL share
- 27.2% → 33.6%
- Turnout
- — → —