Constituency
147. Kabitirtha
Community mirrorWest Bengal Assembly Election, 1996
WB-KABITIRTHA
INC 61.6%won by 31.3%FBL 30.3%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: FBL (FBL) lost it to Indian National Congress (INC), which now leads by 31.3%.
- INC vote shareINC went from 44.5% to 61.6% of the vote here (+17.1%).
- Safe seatIndian National Congress won by more than 25 points — a stronghold, not a 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
1,02,125
Margin
31,941
31.28%
Candidates
14 contested · winner INC- 1RAM PYARE RAMIndian National Congress · INC62,92361.6%
- 2MOINUDDIN SHAMS.FBL · FBL30,98230.3%
- 3RAM CHANDRA JAISWALBharatiya Janata Party · BJP5,3865.3%
- 4BIJOY KUMAR CHOWDHURYShiv Sena · SHS5100.5%
- 5UDAY SINGHIndependent · IND4480.4%
- 6JOY PRAKASH YADAVIndependent · IND3460.3%
- 7MD. ASLAMIndependent · IND3250.3%
- 8BHOLA MAHATOIndependent · IND3120.3%
- 9RABINDER SINGHIndependent · IND2410.2%
- 10BHOLA PRASAD JAISWARIndependent · IND2260.2%
- 11SANAT KUMAR SAHAIndependent · IND1600.2%
- 12SATISH NUNIAIndependent · IND1080.1%
- 13RAM SHANKAR SHARMAIndependent · IND870.1%
- 14VIJAY NARAYAN KESHARIIndependent · IND710.1%
Since 1991
Derived- Winner then
- FBL
- Winner now
- INCflipped
- INC–FBL swing
- +32.7%
- INC share
- 44.5% → 61.6%
- FBL share
- 46.0% → 30.3%
- Turnout
- — → —