Constituency
502. Cooch Behar
Community mirrorWest Bengal · India Lok Sabha Election, 1996
IN-COOCH-BEHAR
FBL 42.2%won by 9.5%INC 32.7%
What changed here
DerivedFBL held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 16.1% to 9.5%.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 8.3% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 74.9% between them, down from 84.9% — the field split more ways.
- TurnoutTurnout rose 4.1% to 87.6%.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
10,64,791
Turnout
87.6%
Valid votes
9,32,463
Margin
89,034
9.55%
Candidates
6 contested · winner FBL- 1AMAR ROY PRADHANFBL · FBL3,93,66742.2%
- 2SABITA ROYIndian National Congress · INC3,04,63332.7%
- 3HITEN BARMANFBS · FBS1,45,07815.6%
- 4BHAHENDRA NATH BARMANBharatiya Janata Party · BJP75,4568.1%
- 5KARNESWAR BARMANAMB · AMB11,6501.2%
- 6NUBASH BARMANIndependent · IND1,9790.2%
Since 1991
Derived- Winner then
- FBL
- Winner now
- FBL
- FBL–INC swing
- −6.6%
- FBL share
- 50.5% → 42.2%
- INC share
- 34.4% → 32.7%
- Turnout
- 83.5% → 87.6%