Constituency
55. Nowgong
Community mirrorAssam · India Lok Sabha Election, 1996
IN-NOWGONG
AGP 36.1%won by 7.4%INC 28.7%
What changed here
DerivedAsom Gana Parishad held the seat; the winning margin widened from 2.1% to 7.4%.
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 64.7% of the vote between them, up from 46.6% — a tighter two-way contest.
- TurnoutTurnout rose 4.3% to 75.1%.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
9,73,312
Turnout
75.1%
Valid votes
7,31,141
Margin
54,128
7.40%
Candidates
13 contested · winner AGP- 1MUHI RAM SAIKIAAsom Gana Parishad · AGP2,63,64936.1%
- 2NAZNEEN FARUQUEIndian National Congress · INC2,09,52128.7%
- 3REKHA SARMABharatiya Janata Party · BJP1,47,19220.1%
- 4HAFIZ RASHID CHOUDHURIUMFA · UMFA44,7826.1%
- 5ARUN MANTAIndependent · IND26,3903.6%
- 6DURGA PRASAD NEOGIndependent · IND12,6481.7%
- 7RAMEN DEKAAIICT · AIICT10,5581.4%
- 8ASIT KUMAR SARKARIndependent · IND7,8341.1%
- 9JAYANTA KUMAR MISRAIndependent · IND1,9460.3%
- 10RAHIMUDDINIndependent · IND1,9280.3%
- 11BANESWAR SAIKIARCPIR · RCPIR1,8030.2%
- 12PUTUL SINGH TERONIndependent · IND1,5750.2%
- 13PUNENDUIndependent · IND1,3150.2%
Since 1991
Derived- Winner then
- AGP
- Winner now
- AGP
- AGP–INC swing
- +5.3%
- AGP share
- 24.3% → 36.1%
- INC share
- 22.3% → 28.7%
- Turnout
- 70.8% → 75.1%