Constituency
195. Goghat
Community mirrorWest Bengal Assembly Election, 1996
WB-GOGHAT
FBL 69.2%won by 48.5%INC 20.7%
What changed here
DerivedFBL held the seat; the winning margin widened from 37.7% to 48.5%.
- Safe seatFBL 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
1,30,566
Margin
63,313
48.49%
Candidates
5 contested · winner FBL- 1SHIBA PRASAD MALICKFBL · FBL90,28869.2%
- 2LAKSHMI CHARAN KANRIIndian National Congress · INC26,97520.7%
- 3MAHADEB SANTRABharatiya Janata Party · BJP9,1367.0%
- 4BANAMALI KATARIIndependent · IND3,6382.8%
- 5NANURAM ROYIndependent · IND5290.4%
Since 1991
Derived- Winner then
- FBL
- Winner now
- FBL
- FBL–INC swing
- +10.8%
- FBL share
- 65.4% → 69.2%
- INC share
- 27.7% → 20.7%
- Turnout
- — → —