Constituency
186. Chinsurah
Community mirrorWest Bengal Assembly Election, 1996
WB-CHINSURAH
FBL 47.2%won by 0.9%INC 46.3%
What changed here
DerivedFBL held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 1.9% to 0.9%.
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 93.5% of the vote between them, up from 85.1% — a tighter two-way contest.
- Knife-edgeDecided by 1,283 votes (0.89%) — among the closest results anywhere.
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
1,44,650
Margin
1,283
0.89%
Candidates
9 contested · winner FBL- 1NAREN DEYFBL · FBL68,28147.2%
- 2TAPAN DASGUPTAIndian National Congress · INC66,99846.3%
- 3BIMALENDU CHAKRABORTYBharatiya Janata Party · BJP6,9214.8%
- 4NIKHIL CHAKRABORTYShiv Sena · SHS1,1760.8%
- 5ARUNAVA BHATTACHARYAIndependent · IND4320.3%
- 6SUBRATA SARKARIndependent · IND3290.2%
- 7SHYAMA PRASAD SHAWIndependent · IND2080.1%
- 8SRIDHAR CHAKRABORTYIndependent · IND1700.1%
- 9JAGDISH SAWIndependent · IND1350.1%
Since 1991
Derived- Winner then
- FBL
- Winner now
- FBL
- FBL–INC swing
- −1.0%
- FBL share
- 43.5% → 47.2%
- INC share
- 41.6% → 46.3%
- Turnout
- — → —