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Constituency result · Lok Sabha · 1996

Basirhat

Parliamentary constituency 14 (SC) · West Bengal

State boardWest Bengal 1996

[01]Result · 1996

#14 · SC
Poll dateNot recordedNo poll date in the source
Contestants7Candidate lines
Electors10,23,023
Votes polled9,12,574
Turnout89.2%
NOTADid not existIntroduced in 2013
WinnerAjay ChakrabortyCommunist Party of India4,53,12649.7% of votes
MARGIN86,016 votes · 9.4 pp4,53,126 − 3,67,110
Runner-upDilip Majumder Indian National Congress3,67,11040.2% of votes
CPI 55.2% of top-two votesINC 44.8%

All candidates 7

  1. 01 Ajay ChakrabortyCPI4,53,126 49.7%
  2. 02 Dilip MajumderINC3,67,110 40.2%
  3. 03 Ramendra Kumar BhattacharyaBJP62,620 6.9%
  4. 04 Debaprasad Bhanja ChaudhuriIND4,585 0.5%
  5. 05 A K M NasiruddinINL4,530 0.5%
  6. 06 Alhaz Abdus SalamML1,843 0.2%
  7. 07 Liakat MondolBKUS1,118 0.1%

Turnout 89.2%

025507510089.2%TURNOUT◦ state median 84.3%
Male 5.23 lakh51.1% Female 5.00 lakh48.9%

Share of 10,23,023 electors

  • Sex ratiofemales per 1,000 males958
  • NOTAintroduced in 2013Did not exist
  • State median turnoutmedian of 42 seats, 199684.3%
  • ReconciliationΣ 7 candidates = 8,94,932Residual 17,642

Seat history 2024–1977

  1. 2024
    4.9 pp
    Shantanu ThakurBharatiya Janata Party
  2. 2019
    7.9 pp
    Shantanu ThakurBharatiya Janata Party
  3. 2015
    17.1 pp
    Mamta ThakurAll India Trinamool Congress
  4. 2014
    11.4 pp
    Kapil Krishna ThakurAll India Trinamool Congress
  5. 2009
    8.6 pp
    Gobinda Chandra NaskarAll India Trinamool Congress
  6. 2004
    20.1 pp
    Ajay ChakrabortyCommunist Party of India
  7. 1999
    9.5 pp
    Ajoy ChakrabortyCommunist Party of India
  8. 1998
    13.6 pp
    Ajay ChakrabortyCommunist Party of India
  9. 1996
    9.4 pp
    Ajay ChakrabortyCommunist Party of India
  10. 1991
    9.2 pp
    Monoranjan SurCommunist Party of India
  11. 1989
    2.6 pp
    Monoranjan SurCommunist Party of India
  12. 1984
    6.3 pp
    Indrajit GuptaCommunist Party of India
  13. 1980
    17.4 pp
    Indrajit GuptaCommunist Party of India
  14. 1977
    3.5 pp
    Alhaj M.A. HannanBharatiya Lok Dal

Winning margin in percentage points; bars scaled to the widest, 20.1 pp.

[02]Computed insights

Arithmetic · working shown

  1. The top two polled 89.9% of votes; the other 5 candidates 8.2% between them.

    (4,53,126 + 3,67,110) ÷ 9,12,574 = 89.9% · 74,696 ÷ 9,12,574 = 8.2%

  2. Turnout of 89.2% was 4.9 pp above the state's median seat (84.3%).

    89.2 − 84.3 = +4.9

  3. The margin widened from 9.2 pp in 1991 to 9.4 pp.

    9.4 − 9.2 = +0.2 pp

  4. CPI held the seat it won in 1991.

    1991 CPI · 1996 CPI

Each line is arithmetic over the figures on this page.

[03]Reconciliation

Reconciliation failed
  • Candidate votesΣ 7 candidate lines8,94,932
  • NOTAintroduced in 2013Did not exist
  • Published totalVotes polled9,12,574
  • Checkneither convention holdsResidual 17,642

Candidate votes miss the published total by 17,642, with NOTA counted inside or outside it.

Contest resultElection Commission of India, constituency-wise results · Lok Sabha 1996 · West Bengal · retrieval date not recorded in the results database

Candidates7 candidate lines from the same results · reconciliation: Reconciliation failed

State median turnoutComputed from 42 seats on the West Bengal Lok Sabha 1996 board · retrieval date not recorded in the results database

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