Constituency
46. Karimganj
Community mirrorAssam · India Lok Sabha Election, 1996
IN-KARIMGANJ
BJP 33.1%won by 4.8%INC 28.2%
What changed here
DerivedBharatiya Janata Party held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 8.4% to 4.8%.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 6.1% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
- Runner-up changedSecond place passed from Janata Dal (JD) to Indian National Congress (INC).
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 61.3% between them, down from 70.0% — the field split more ways.
- TurnoutTurnout rose 3.6% to 77.3%.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
8,76,542
Turnout
77.3%
Valid votes
6,78,018
Margin
32,749
4.83%
Candidates
9 contested · winner BJP- 1DWARAKA NATH DASBharatiya Janata Party · BJP2,24,22933.1%
- 2SABITA DASIndian National Congress · INC1,91,48028.2%
- 3NARAYAN CHANDRA DASAsom Gana Parishad · AGP1,83,41527.1%
- 4NEPAL CHANDRA DASIndependent · IND52,3077.7%
- 5SUBAL CHANDRA DASJanata Dal · JD14,1632.1%
- 6JADAV RAJBHORIndependent · IND5,2330.8%
- 7U C DASAIICT · AIICT3,7410.6%
- 8NARAYAN CHANDRA DASIndependent · IND2,2580.3%
- 9BENODE DASIndependent · IND1,1920.2%
Since 1991
Derived- Winner then
- BJP
- Winner now
- BJP
- BJP–INC swing
- −24.9%
- BJP share
- 39.2% → 33.1%
- INC share
- 9.4% → 28.2%
- Turnout
- 73.8% → 77.3%