Constituency
257. Kulti
Community mirrorWest Bengal Assembly Election, 1996
WB-KULTI
FBL 44.0%won by 1.6%INC 42.4%
What changed here
DerivedFBL held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 21.6% to 1.6%.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 4.9% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
- Runner-up changedSecond place passed from Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) to Indian National Congress (INC).
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 86.4% of the vote between them, up from 76.4% — a tighter two-way contest.
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
1,13,221
Margin
1,865
1.65%
Candidates
12 contested · winner FBL- 1ACHARYYA MANIKLALFBL · FBL49,85244.0%
- 2AJIT KR. GHATAKIndian National Congress · INC47,98742.4%
- 3HRISHIKESH PUITANDIBharatiya Janata Party · BJP11,0229.7%
- 4RUKMINI PRASADIndependent · IND1,3261.2%
- 5SANKAR NUNIAIndependent · IND1,1211.0%
- 6ISWARLAL PASWANIndependent · IND4470.4%
- 7ASISH BHATTACHARYAAMB · AMB3470.3%
- 8PRABHAKAR MAJIIndependent · IND3250.3%
- 9ANITA HALDARIndependent · IND3200.3%
- 10RAJIB DEYIndependent · IND1640.1%
- 11SUKHU KURMIIndependent · IND1590.1%
- 12BHARAT PD. GUPTAIndependent · IND1510.1%
Since 1991
Derived- Winner then
- FBL
- Winner now
- FBL
- FBL–INC swing
- −27.8%
- FBL share
- 49.0% → 44.0%
- INC share
- 19.5% → 42.4%
- Turnout
- — → —