Constituency
149. Rashbehari Avenue
Community mirrorWest Bengal Assembly Election, 1996
WB-RASHBEHARI-AVENUE
INC 59.0%won by 25.2%CPM 33.8%
What changed here
DerivedIndian National Congress held the seat; the winning margin held roughly steady from 24.9% to 25.2%.
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 92.7% of the vote between them, up from 85.2% — a tighter two-way contest.
- 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
81,832
Margin
20,628
25.21%
Candidates
8 contested · winner INC- 1HOIMI BASUIndian National Congress · INC48,25359.0%
- 2RANJAN BANERJEECommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM27,62533.8%
- 3PURSHOTTAM KUMARBharatiya Janata Party · BJP5,1626.3%
- 4RAMKRISHNA BISWASIndependent · IND1930.2%
- 5HARINARAYAN DEYIndependent · IND1800.2%
- 6BALAI CHATTERJEEIndependent · IND1620.2%
- 7PULAK MUKHERJEEIndependent · IND1620.2%
- 8D. BHATTACHARYAIndependent · IND950.1%
Since 1991
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- INC
- INC–CPM swing
- +0.3%
- INC share
- 55.0% → 59.0%
- CPM share
- 30.1% → 33.8%
- Turnout
- — → —