Constituency
1. Andaman & Nicobar Islands
Community mirrorAndaman & Nicobar Islands · India Lok Sabha Election, 1996
IN-ANDAMAN-NICOBAR-ISLANDS
INC 58.2%won by 34.0%BJP 24.3%
What changed here
DerivedIndian National Congress held the seat; the winning margin widened from 6.2% to 34.0%.
- Runner-up changedSecond place passed from Communist Party of India (Marxist) (CPM) to Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP).
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 82.5% between them, down from 94.5% — the field split more ways.
- TurnoutTurnout fell 2.8% to 60.7%.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
2,11,226
Turnout
60.7%
Valid votes
1,28,212
Margin
43,545
33.96%
Candidates
11 contested · winner INC- 1MANORANJAN BHAKTAIndian National Congress · INC74,64258.2%
- 2BISHNU PADA RAYBharatiya Janata Party · BJP31,09724.3%
- 3TAPAN KUMAR BEPARICommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM18,36314.3%
- 4SUNDARAM S NIndependent · IND9270.7%
- 5VINOD KUMAR GUPTAIndependent · IND7070.6%
- 6MATHEWS P AIndependent · IND5440.4%
- 7MOHAN N BJanahitha Paksha · JP5270.4%
- 8KALIMUTHUIndependent · IND5110.4%
- 9SATYANARAYANA RAO SIndependent · IND4480.3%
- 10BALRAJ S AIndependent · IND2580.2%
- 11SHARIEFF J BIndependent · IND1880.1%
Since 1991
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- INC
- INC–BJP swing
- −11.6%
- INC share
- 50.4% → 58.2%
- BJP share
- 4.9% → 24.3%
- Turnout
- 63.5% → 60.7%