Constituency
236. Arsa
Community mirrorWest Bengal Assembly Election, 1996
WB-ARSA
FBL 46.0%won by 8.7%INC 37.3%
What changed here
DerivedFBL held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 27.1% to 8.7%.
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 83.2% of the vote between them, up from 70.7% — a tighter two-way 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
1,02,080
Margin
8,884
8.70%
Candidates
11 contested · winner FBL- 1NISHI KANTA MEHTAFBL · FBL46,91446.0%
- 2KAMAKSHYA PRASAD SINGH DEOIndian National Congress · INC38,03037.3%
- 3AJIT PRASAD MAHATAJharkhand Mukti Morcha · JMM11,98711.7%
- 4SUBARNA KUMARIndependent · IND1,8891.9%
- 5DHIRENDRA NATH KUMARBharatiya Janata Party · BJP1,7951.8%
- 6KARAM CHAND MAHATOIndependent · IND4560.4%
- 7SHASHI BHUSAN MAHATAIndependent · IND3650.4%
- 8SUSANTO MAHATOIndependent · IND1930.2%
- 9SATYANARAYAN MAJHIIndependent · IND1820.2%
- 10ALOKE KUMAR SARKARIndependent · IND1750.2%
- 11ASOK KUMAR CHATTOPADHYAYIndependent · IND940.1%
Since 1991
Derived- Winner then
- FBL
- Winner now
- FBL
- FBL–INC swing
- −18.4%
- FBL share
- 48.9% → 46.0%
- INC share
- 21.8% → 37.3%
- Turnout
- — → —