West Bengal · 1996
State seat map, party leadership, and constituency results.
- Seats
- 42
- Turnout
- 82.7%
- Electors
- 4,55,83,054
- Votes polled
- 3,76,77,142
- NOTA
- 0
- Leading party
- CPM
State map
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42 of 42 seats shown
Constituencies
| Constituency | Category | Winner | Runner-up | Vote share | Margin | Turnout |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Alipurduars | GEN | Joachim Baxla (RSP) | Pius Tirkey (INC) | 53.1% | 1,37,810 (16.7%) | 85.4% |
| Arambagh | GEN | Anil Basu (CPM) | Monoranjan Hazra (INC) | 59.6% | 2,26,333 (24.8%) | 87.3% |
| Asansol | GEN | Haradhan Roy (CPM) | Sukumar Bandyopadhyay (INC) | 46.4% | 46,950 (5.8%) | 69.7% |
| Balurghat | GEN | Barman Ranen (RSP) | Satyendra Nath Roy (INC) | 49.0% | 1,43,707 (16.0%) | 86.8% |
| Bankura | GEN | Acharia Basudeb (CPM) | Gouri Sankar Dey (INC) | 56.2% | 2,28,987 (30.6%) | 77.9% |
| Barasat | GEN | Chitta Basu (FBL) | Ranjit Kumar Panja (INC) | 46.2% | 35,347 (3.4%) | 86.3% |
| Barrackpore | GEN | Tarit Baran Topdar (CPM) | Ghosal Debi (INC) | 49.5% | 50,894 (6.3%) | 81.5% |
| Basirhat | GEN | Ajay Chakraborty (CPI) | Dilip Majumder (INC) | 50.6% | 86,016 (9.6%) | 89.2% |
| Berhampore | GEN | Pramothes Mukherjee (RSP) | Siddhartha Shankar Ray (INC) | 48.8% | 44,357 (4.8%) | 81.0% |
| Birbhum | GEN | Ramchandra Dome (CPM) | Mamata Saha (INC) | 50.4% | 1,11,020 (13.9%) | 83.2% |
| Bolpur | GEN | Somnath Chatterjee (CPM) | Sunil Das (INC) | 60.5% | 2,53,646 (32.6%) | 82.1% |
| Burdwan | GEN | Balai Ray (CPM) | Ritesh Kumar Dutta (INC) | 59.9% | 2,62,714 (27.2%) | 86.0% |
| Calcutta North East | GEN | Ajit Kumar Panja (INC) | Dipen Ghosh (CPM) | 52.0% | 64,985 (10.1%) | 72.8% |
| Calcutta North West | GEN | Debi Prosad Pal (INC) | Shyamal Bhattacherjee (JD) | 48.3% | 64,951 (14.8%) | 65.2% |
| Calcutta South | GEN | Mamata Banerjee (INC) | Bharati Mukherjee (CPM) | 52.5% | 1,03,261 (12.4%) | 73.0% |
| Contai | GEN | Sudhir Giri (CPM) | Nitish Sengupta (INC) | 48.7% | 24,042 (2.9%) | 89.0% |
| Cooch Behar | SC | Amar Roy Pradhan (FBL) | Sabita Roy (INC) | 42.2% | 89,034 (9.5%) | 89.6% |
| Darjeeling | GEN | R B Rai (CPM) | K B Chettri (INC) | 45.9% | 77,124 (9.9%) | 69.5% |
| Diamond Harbour | GEN | Samik Lahiri (CPM) | Amjad Ali Sardar (INC) | 47.4% | 22,526 (2.6%) | 80.5% |
| Dum Dum | GEN | Nirmal Kanti Chatterjee (CPM) | Ashutosh Laha (INC) | 47.4% | 58,291 (4.8%) | 81.1% |
| Durgapur | SC | Sunil Khan (CPM) | Chittaranjan Pramanik (INC) | 55.7% | 1,81,713 (20.4%) | 80.6% |
| Hooghly | GEN | Rupchand Pal (CPM) | Gouri Sankar Banerjee (INC) | 49.3% | 38,497 (4.2%) | 85.3% |
| Howrah | GEN | Priya Ranjan Das Munsi (INC) | Susanta Chakraborty (CPM) | 47.9% | 33,931 (3.5%) | 75.2% |
| Jadavpur | GEN | Krishna Bose (INC) | Malini Bhattacharya (CPM) | 47.4% | 13,038 (1.2%) | 81.9% |
| Jalpaiguri | SC | Jitendra Nath Das (CPM) | Deb Prasad Roy (INC) | 48.7% | 1,12,462 (12.6%) | 86.3% |
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Party board
| Party | Seats won | Contested | Vote share | Total votes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| CPM | 23 | 31 | 36.7% | 1,34,67,522 |
| INC | 9 | 42 | 40.1% | 1,47,11,538 |
| RSP | 4 | 4 | 4.8% | 17,45,683 |
| CPI | 3 | 3 | 3.8% | 13,97,109 |
| FBL | 3 | 3 | 3.4% | 12,53,700 |
| BJP | 0 | 42 | 6.9% | 25,25,864 |
| IND | 0 | 194 | 2.0% | 7,50,248 |
| JMM | 0 | 7 | 0.5% | 1,87,040 |
| FB(S) | 0 | 2 | 0.5% | 1,72,685 |
| JD | 0 | 1 | 0.4% | 1,47,686 |
| JKP(N) | 0 | 2 | 0.3% | 94,655 |
| AMB | 0 | 13 | 0.1% | 44,502 |
| BSP | 0 | 4 | 0.1% | 41,466 |
| CPI(ML)(L) | 0 | 3 | 0.1% | 27,537 |
| SHS | 0 | 7 | 0.1% | 26,767 |
| MUL | 0 | 10 | 0.1% | 26,507 |
| HJKP | 0 | 2 | 0.1% | 24,011 |
| AIIC(T) | 0 | 7 | 0.1% | 18,377 |
| PBRML | 0 | 3 | 0.0% | 8,624 |
| INL | 0 | 3 | 0.0% | 8,295 |
| JKP | 0 | 2 | 0.0% | 4,265 |
| JMM(M) | 0 | 2 | 0.0% | 4,058 |
| SAP | 0 | 4 | 0.0% | 3,461 |
| BMSM | 0 | 1 | 0.0% | 2,834 |
| BKUS | 0 | 2 | 0.0% | 2,670 |
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