Constituency
514. Barasat
Community mirrorWest Bengal · India Lok Sabha Election, 1996
IN-BARASAT
FBL 46.2%won by 3.4%INC 42.9%
What changed here
DerivedFBL held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 5.1% to 3.4%.
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 89.1% of the vote between them, up from 82.1% — a tighter two-way contest.
- TurnoutTurnout rose 2.7% to 84.4%.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
12,41,826
Turnout
84.4%
Valid votes
10,47,840
Margin
35,347
3.37%
Candidates
10 contested · winner FBL- 1CHITTA BASUFBL · FBL4,84,47446.2%
- 2RANJIT KUMAR PANJAIndian National Congress · INC4,49,12742.9%
- 3JATINDRA NATH BISWASBharatiya Janata Party · BJP65,7226.3%
- 4MANOJ HOWLADARBahujan Samaj Party · BSP20,8142.0%
- 5ARUN MAJHIIndependent · IND7,9860.8%
- 6MOKLUKAR RAHMANMUL · MUL7,3040.7%
- 7ACHYUT CHATTERJEEShiv Sena · SHS5,0400.5%
- 8ASHOKE MUKHERJEEIndependent · IND4,7990.5%
- 9ABDUL GAFFARIndian National League · INL1,8550.2%
- 10BANAMALI DASIndependent · IND7190.1%
Since 1991
Derived- Winner then
- FBL
- Winner now
- FBL
- FBL–INC swing
- −1.7%
- FBL share
- 43.6% → 46.2%
- INC share
- 38.5% → 42.9%
- Turnout
- 81.7% → 84.4%