Constituency
269. Galsi
Community mirrorWest Bengal Assembly Election, 1996
WB-GALSI
FBL 60.8%won by 33.7%INC 27.1%
What changed here
DerivedFBL held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 37.3% to 33.7%.
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 87.9% of the vote between them, up from 82.7% — a tighter two-way contest.
- 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
1,15,494
Margin
38,915
33.69%
Candidates
5 contested · winner FBL- 1IDRISH MONDALFBL · FBL70,24260.8%
- 2SYED IMDAD ALIIndian National Congress · INC31,32727.1%
- 3NILMADHAB MONDALBharatiya Janata Party · BJP11,0079.5%
- 4MUKHOPADHYAY SWAPANFBS · FBS2,0681.8%
- 5BURMAN SHIB SHANKARIndependent · IND8500.7%
Since 1991
Derived- Winner then
- FBL
- Winner now
- FBL
- FBL–INC swing
- −3.6%
- FBL share
- 60.0% → 60.8%
- INC share
- 22.7% → 27.1%
- Turnout
- — → —