Lok Sabha General Election 1996

West Bengal

42 parliamentary constituencies — party tallies, map, and winners.

← State wise results Lok Sabha General Election 1996

Party Wise Results

West Bengal — seats, contested & votes

Party	Seats won	Contested	Vote share	Total votes
CPM · Communist Party of India (Marxist)	23	31	36.70%	13,467,522
INC · Indian National Congress	9	42	40.09%	14,711,538
RSP · Revolutionary Socialist Party	4	4	4.76%	1,745,683
CPI · Communist Party of India	3	3	3.81%	1,397,109
FBL · Forward Bloc	3	3	3.42%	1,253,700
BJP · Bharatiya Janata Party	0	42	6.88%	2,525,864
IND · Independent	0	41	2.04%	750,248
JMM · Jharkhand Mukti Morcha	0	7	0.51%	187,040
FB(S) · Forward Bloc (Socialist)	0	2	0.47%	172,685
JD · Janata Dal	0	1	0.40%	147,686
JKP(N) · Jharkhand Party (Naren)	0	2	0.26%	94,655
AMB · Amra Bangalee	0	13	0.12%	44,502
BSP · Bahujan Samaj Party	0	4	0.11%	41,466
CPI(ML)(L) · Communist Party of India (Marxist-Leninist) (Liberation)	0	3	0.08%	27,537
SHS · Shivsena	0	7	0.07%	26,767
MUL · Muslim League Kerala State Committee	0	10	0.07%	26,507
HJKP · Hul Jharkhand Party	0	2	0.07%	24,011
AIIC(T) · All India Indira Congress (Tiwari)	0	7	0.05%	18,377
Total	42	—	100%	36,700,029

Party Wise Results

Seats won (Doughnut)

West Bengal Constituency Map

Parliamentary seats — click for details

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Party Wise Vote Share

Votes polled in West Bengal (Pie)

Constituencies

Winner · vote share · margin

Constituency	Winner	Vote share	Margin over runner-up
Cooch Behar #1	Amar Roy Pradhan Male FBL	42.22%	89,034
Alipurduars #2	Joachim Baxla Male RSP	53.11%	137,810
Jalpaiguri #3	Jitendra Nath Das Male CPM	48.70%	112,462
Darjeeling #4	R B Rai Male CPM	45.91%	77,124
Raiganj #5	Subrata Mukherjee Male CPM	43.79%	10,956
Balurghat #6	Barman Ranen Male RSP	49.02%	143,707
Malda #7	Abul Barkat Ataul G K Choudhury Male INC	48.78%	89,822
Jangipur #8	Md. Idris Ali Male INC	45.56%	13,122
Murshidabad #9	Masudal Hossain Syed Male CPM	46.50%	37,185
Berhampore #10	Pramothes Mukherjee Male RSP	48.77%	44,357
Krishnagar #11	Ajoay Mukhopadhyay Male CPM	45.94%	38,910
Nabadwip #12	Asim Bala CPM	46.98%	39,068
Barasat #13	Chitta Basu Male FBL	46.24%	35,347
Basirhat #14	Ajay Chakraborty CPI	50.63%	86,016
Joynagar #15	Sanat Kumar Mandal Male RSP	48.17%	143,927
Mathurapur #16	Radhika Ranjan Pramanik Male CPM	48.10%	16,068
Diamond Harbour #17	Samik Lahiri Male CPM	47.37%	22,526
Jadavpur #18	Krishna Bose Female INC	47.41%	13,038
Barrackpore #19	Tarit Baran Topdar CPM	49.54%	50,894
Dum Dum #20	Nirmal Kanti Chatterjee Male CPM	47.39%	58,291
Calcutta North West #21	Debi Prosad Pal Male INC	48.31%	64,951
Calcutta North East #22	Ajit Kumar Panja Male INC	51.98%	64,985
Calcutta South #23	Mamata Banerjee Female INC	52.51%	103,261
Howrah #24	Priya Ranjan Das Munsi Male INC	47.89%	33,931
Uluberia #25	Hannan Mollah CPM	49.07%	27,842
Serampore #26	Pradip Bhattacharya Male INC	46.44%	5,463
Hooghly #27	Rupchand Pal CPM	49.30%	38,497
Arambagh #28	Anil Basu Male CPM	59.57%	226,333
Panskura #29	Geeta Mukherjee Female CPI	54.82%	111,388
Tamluk #30	Jayanta Bhattacharya Male INC	48.67%	7,910
Contai #31	Sudhir Giri Male CPM	48.71%	24,042
Midnapore #32	Indrajit Gupta Male CPI	56.29%	210,649
Jhargram #33	Rupchand Murmu Male CPM	60.28%	347,264
Purulia #34	Bir Sing Mahato Male FBL	51.02%	109,870
Bankura #35	Acharia Basudeb Male CPM	56.24%	228,987
Vishnupur #36	Sandhya Bauri Female CPM	58.14%	265,846
Durgapur #37	Sunil Khan Male CPM	55.68%	181,713
Asansol #38	Haradhan Roy Male CPM	46.37%	46,950
Burdwan #39	Balai Ray Male CPM	59.92%	262,714
Katwa #40	Mahaboob Zahedi Male CPM	50.46%	106,202
Bolpur #41	Somnath Chatterjee Male CPM	60.55%	253,646
Birbhum #42	Ramchandra Dome Male CPM	50.35%	111,020