Constituency
165. Shibpur
Community mirrorWest Bengal Assembly Election, 1996
WB-SHIBPUR
INC 50.6%won by 7.3%FBL 43.3%
What changed here
DerivedIndian National Congress held the seat; the winning margin widened from 2.5% to 7.3%.
- 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
2,03,441
Margin
14,874
7.31%
Candidates
6 contested · winner INC- 1JATU LAHIRIIndian National Congress · INC1,02,98550.6%
- 2PRABIR KUMAR BANERJEEFBL · FBL88,11143.3%
- 3LAKSHMI NARAYAN MULLICKBharatiya Janata Party · BJP10,6935.3%
- 4BIPIN PANDEIndependent · IND7560.4%
- 5SUBRATA PAULIndependent · IND4800.2%
- 6SHINGH PARMESHWAR PRASADIndependent · IND4160.2%
Since 1991
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- INC
- INC–FBL swing
- +4.8%
- INC share
- 45.7% → 50.6%
- FBL share
- 43.3% → 43.3%
- Turnout
- — → —