Constituency
287. Rajnagar
Community mirrorWest Bengal Assembly Election, 1996
WB-RAJNAGAR
FBL 54.8%won by 27.4%INC 27.5%
What changed here
DerivedFBL held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 34.8% to 27.4%.
- Runner-up changedSecond place passed from Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) to Indian National Congress (INC).
- Safe seatFBL won by more than 25 points — a stronghold, not a contest.
- Multi-cornered4 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
1,01,684
Margin
27,834
27.37%
Candidates
4 contested · winner FBL- 1BIJOY BAGDIFBL · FBL55,76054.8%
- 2ASESH MONDALIndian National Congress · INC27,92627.5%
- 3PANCHANAN BADYAKARBharatiya Janata Party · BJP10,91010.7%
- 4FATIK BADYAKARIndependent · IND7,0887.0%
Since 1991
Derived- Winner then
- FBL
- Winner now
- FBL
- FBL–INC swing
- −11.6%
- FBL share
- 56.5% → 54.8%
- INC share
- 17.4% → 27.5%
- Turnout
- — → —