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West Bengal Lok Sabha 1996

Results board · 42 constituencies

HouseLok Sabha
StateWest Bengal
Seats
42
Constituencies
Majority
22
Seats needed of 42
Electors
4.56Cr
On the roll
Votes polled
3.77Cr
82.7% of electors
Median turnout
84.3%
Median of 42 seats
CPI(M) lead
+1
Above majority · 23 − 22

[01]Seat matrix

42 seats · one dot per seat · ordered by seats won
Hemicycle of 42 seats: CPI(M) 23, INC 9, RSP 4, AIFB 3, CPI 3. Majority line at 22 seats. Hemicycle of 42 seats: CPI(M) 23, INC 9, RSP 4, AIFB 3, CPI 3. Majority line at 22 seats.
Majority · 22 of 42CPI(M) 23 · +1 above majority
CPI(M) 2354.8% Communist Party of India (Marxist)
INC 921.4% Indian National Congress
RSP 49.5% Revolutionary Socialist Party
AIFB 37.1% All India Forward Bloc
CPI 37.1% Communist Party of India

[02]Vote share

State level, as published
INC 40.1%9 seats · 21.4%
CPI(M) 36.7%23 seats · 54.8%
BJP 6.9%0 seats
RSP 4.8%4 seats · 9.5%
CPI 3.8%3 seats · 7.1%
Others 7.7%3 seats · 7.1%

Vote share not published

  • AIFB3 seats

The published shares sum to 100.0%, so these parties' votes sit inside Others.

Alliances

THIRD FRONT 49.1%33 seats
UPA 40.1%9 seats
NDA 6.9%0 seats
OTHERS 3.9%Seats not published

[03]Computed insights

Arithmetic · working shown

  1. CPI(M) converted 36.7% of votes into 54.8% of seats, a seat premium of 18.1 pp.

    23 ÷ 42 = 54.8% · 54.8 − 36.7 = +18.1

  2. INC polled 40.1% of votes, the highest share, but won 9 seats (21.4%).

    9 ÷ 42 = 21.4% · 21.4 − 40.1 = −18.7

  3. Serampore was decided by 5,463 votes, the closest of 42 seats; Jhargram had the widest margin, 3,47,264.

    min / max of margin over 42 seats with a recorded margin

  4. 2 seats were won by a margin under 1%; INC won 2 of them.

    count(margin % < 1.0) = 2 of 42 · INC 2

  5. In SC-reserved seats CPI(M) won 6 of 10 (60.0%), against 54.8% of all seats.

    6 ÷ 10 = 60.0% · 23 ÷ 42 = 54.8%

  6. Turnout ran from 65.2% in Calcutta North West to 89.9% in Panskura; the median seat polled 84.3%.

    min / median / max over 42 seats with a recorded turnout

Each line is arithmetic over the figures on this page.

[04]Turnout

42 of 42 seats carry a turnout
025507510084.3%MEDIAN SEAT
< 50% 00.0% of seats
50–60 00.0% of seats
60–70 37.1% of seats
70–80 614.3% of seats
≥ 80% 3378.6% of seats
  • LowestCalcutta North West65.2%
  • HighestPanskura89.9%
  • NOTANOTA did not exist before 2013Not recorded

[05]Every seat

42 rows · by constituency number
Constituency results, West Bengal Lok Sabha 1996, all 42 seats
# Constituency Winner Party Votes polled Margin Margin % Turnout %
01 Cooch BeharSC Amar Roy Pradhan All India Forward Bloc 9,53,613 89,034 9.3 89.6
02 AlipurduarsST Joachim Baxla Revolutionary Socialist Party 8,54,456 1,37,810 16.1 85.4
03 JalpaiguriSC Jitendra Nath Das Communist Party of India (Marxist) 9,19,243 1,12,462 12.2 86.3
04 Darjeeling R B Rai Communist Party of India (Marxist) 8,43,297 77,124 9.1 69.5
05 Raiganj Subrata Mukherjee Communist Party of India (Marxist) 9,01,716 10,956 1.2 81.2
06 Balurghat Barman Ranen Revolutionary Socialist Party 9,26,427 1,43,707 15.5 86.8
07 Malda Abul Barkat Ataul G K Choudhury Indian National Congress 8,76,253 89,822 10.3 86.5
08 Jangipur Md. Idris Ali Indian National Congress 8,87,589 13,122 1.5 84.8
09 Murshidabad Masudal Hossain Syed Communist Party of India (Marxist) 9,96,549 37,185 3.7 87.6
10 Berhampore Pramothes Mukherjee Revolutionary Socialist Party 9,45,166 44,357 4.7 81.0
11 Krishnagar Ajoay Mukhopadhyay Communist Party of India (Marxist) 9,11,616 38,910 4.3 85.2
12 Nabadwip Asim Bala Communist Party of India (Marxist) 11,35,004 39,068 3.4 86.9
13 BarasatSC Chitta Basu All India Forward Bloc 10,72,009 35,347 3.3 86.3
14 BasirhatSC Ajay Chakraborty Communist Party of India 9,12,574 86,016 9.4 89.2
15 Joynagar Sanat Kumar Mandal Revolutionary Socialist Party 8,94,592 1,43,927 16.1 84.1
16 Mathurapur Radhika Ranjan Pramanik Communist Party of India (Marxist) 8,75,404 16,068 1.8 86.3
17 Diamond Harbour Samik Lahiri Communist Party of India (Marxist) 8,89,735 22,526 2.5 80.5
18 Jadavpur Krishna Bose Indian National Congress 10,75,315 13,038 1.2 81.9
19 BarrackporeSC Tarit Baran Topdar Communist Party of India (Marxist) 8,25,298 50,894 6.2 81.5
20 Dum DumSC Nirmal Kanti Chatterjee Communist Party of India (Marxist) 12,52,429 58,291 4.7 81.1
21 Calcutta North West Debi Prosad Pal Indian National Congress 4,52,757 64,951 14.3 65.2
22 Calcutta North East Ajit Kumar Panja Indian National Congress 6,60,413 64,985 9.8 72.8
23 Calcutta South Mamata Banerjee Indian National Congress 8,52,458 1,03,261 12.1 73.0
24 Howrah Priya Ranjan Das Munsi Indian National Congress 9,85,507 33,931 3.4 75.2
25 Uluberia Hannan Mollah Communist Party of India (Marxist) 8,63,906 27,842 3.2 82.8
26 SeramporeCLOSEST Pradip Bhattacharya Indian National Congress 9,90,773 5,463 0.6 79.3
27 Hooghly Rupchand Pal Communist Party of India (Marxist) 9,34,941 38,497 4.1 85.3
28 Arambagh Anil Basu Communist Party of India (Marxist) 9,31,653 2,26,333 24.3 87.3
29 PanskuraSC Geeta Mukherjee Communist Party of India 8,45,529 1,11,388 13.2 89.9
30 Tamluk Jayanta Bhattacharya Indian National Congress 9,38,889 7,910 0.8 89.8
31 Contai Sudhir Giri Communist Party of India (Marxist) 8,29,074 24,042 2.9 89.0
32 Midnapore Indrajit Gupta Communist Party of India 8,89,188 2,10,649 23.7 84.5
33 JhargramSTWIDEST Rupchand Murmu Communist Party of India (Marxist) 8,27,962 3,47,264 41.9 87.7
34 Purulia Bir Sing Mahato All India Forward Bloc 7,65,833 1,09,870 14.3 79.2
35 Bankura Acharia Basudeb Communist Party of India (Marxist) 7,74,916 2,28,987 29.5 78.0
36 Vishnupur Sandhya Bauri Communist Party of India (Marxist) 8,51,257 2,65,846 31.2 84.1
37 DurgapurSC Sunil Khan Communist Party of India (Marxist) 9,17,970 1,81,713 19.8 80.6
38 AsansolSC Haradhan Roy Communist Party of India (Marxist) 8,41,736 46,950 5.6 69.7
39 Burdwan Balai Ray Communist Party of India (Marxist) 9,83,515 2,62,714 26.7 86.0
40 Katwa Mahaboob Zahedi Communist Party of India (Marxist) 9,60,916 1,06,202 11.1 86.2
41 BolpurSC Somnath Chatterjee Communist Party of India (Marxist) 8,02,298 2,53,646 31.6 82.1
42 Birbhum Ramchandra Dome Communist Party of India (Marxist) 8,27,366 1,11,020 13.4 83.2
Margin bar scaled to the widest margin, 3,47,264 votes

Seat resultsElection Commission of India, constituency-wise results · Lok Sabha 1996 · West Bengal · 42 seats · retrieval date not recorded in the results database

Vote share and alliancesState-level summary published with the same results · retrieval date not recorded in the results database

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