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Constituency

147. Kabitirtha

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West Bengal Assembly Election, 1996

WB-KABITIRTHA

INC 61.6%won by 31.3%FBL 30.3%

What changed here

Derived

The 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
not in source
Turnout
not in source
Valid votes
1,02,125
Margin
31,941
31.28%

Since 1991

Derived
Winner then
FBL
Winner now
INCflipped
INCFBL swing
+32.7%
INC share
44.5% 61.6%
FBL share
46.0% 30.3%
Turnout