Constituency
50. Kokrajhar
Community mirrorAssam · India Lok Sabha Election, 1996
IN-KOKRAJHAR
IND 24.4%won by 4.1%IND 20.2%
What changed here
DerivedIndependent held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 32.8% to 4.1%.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 28.8% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 44.6% between them, down from 73.6% — the field split more ways.
- TurnoutTurnout fell 3.3% to 77.9%.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
9,77,897
Turnout
77.9%
Valid votes
7,62,168
Margin
31,554
4.14%
Candidates
6 contested · winner IND- 1LOUIS ISLARYIndependent · IND1,85,68824.4%
- 2RABI RAM BRAHMAIndependent · IND1,54,13420.2%
- 3PANI RAM RAVAAsom Gana Parishad · AGP1,53,54020.1%
- 4LAHENDRA BASUMATARYIndian National Congress · INC1,29,03716.9%
- 5CHARAN NARZARYBharatiya Janata Party · BJP1,22,60916.1%
- 6AMRIT LAL BASUMATARYICS · ICS17,1602.3%
Since 1991
Derived- Winner then
- IND
- Winner now
- IND
- IND–IND swing
- 0.0%
- IND share
- 53.2% → 24.4%
- IND share
- 53.2% → 24.4%
- Turnout
- 81.2% → 77.9%