Constituency
67. Barwan
Community mirrorWest Bengal Assembly Election, 1996
WB-BARWAN
RSP 50.6%won by 8.7%INC 41.9%
What changed here
DerivedRashtriya Sarvajan Party held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 22.2% to 8.7%.
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 92.5% of the vote between them, up from 77.7% — a tighter two-way contest.
- Multi-cornered3 candidates cleared 5% — a genuinely multi-cornered fight.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
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Turnout
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Valid votes
1,17,731
Margin
10,202
8.67%
Candidates
6 contested · winner RSP- 1DEBABRATA BANERJEERashtriya Sarvajan Party · RSP59,53750.6%
- 2ALI HOSSAIN MONDALIndian National Congress · INC49,33541.9%
- 3JITENDRANATH GHOSHBharatiya Janata Party · BJP8,1206.9%
- 4SASTI CHARAN MALIndependent · IND3600.3%
- 5MOFAZA KHATUNSamajwadi Andolan Party · SAP2990.3%
- 6SUJIT KUMAR GHOSHAMB · AMB800.1%
Since 1991
Derived- Winner then
- RSP
- Winner now
- RSP
- RSP–INC swing
- −13.6%
- RSP share
- 50.0% → 50.6%
- INC share
- 27.7% → 41.9%
- Turnout
- — → —