Constituency
158. Burtola
Community mirrorWest Bengal Assembly Election, 1996
WB-BURTOLA
INC 63.7%won by 35.7%RSP 28.0%
What changed here
DerivedIndian National Congress held the seat; the winning margin widened from 28.9% to 35.7%.
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 91.7% of the vote between them, up from 84.4% — 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
79,067
Margin
28,247
35.73%
Candidates
9 contested · winner INC- 1SADHAN PANDEIndian National Congress · INC50,36863.7%
- 2PARIMAL ROUTHRashtriya Sarvajan Party · RSP22,12128.0%
- 3JNANABRATA CHANDABharatiya Janata Party · BJP5,0856.4%
- 4PRASANTA KUMAR GHOSHIndependent · IND6870.9%
- 5DHIRA SILIndependent · IND2810.4%
- 6RAMESH MISRAIndependent · IND2050.3%
- 7PRALOY GUHAIndependent · IND1320.2%
- 8SANJAY KR. BHOTIKAIndependent · IND1190.2%
- 9SUDAV ADHIKARYIndependent · IND690.1%
Since 1991
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- INC
- INC–RSP swing
- +6.8%
- INC share
- 56.6% → 63.7%
- RSP share
- 27.7% → 28.0%
- Turnout
- — → —