West Bengal assembly election, Feb 1996

294 assembly constituencies in West Bengal, 80.64% turnout.

Seats

294

Candidates

2,035

114 women, 20 elected

Turnout

80.64%

3.68 cr of 4.56 cr

Leading party

CPM

157 of 294 seats

Party performance

Ordered by seats won in West Bengal

Party	Won	+/−	Contested	Votes	Share	Share +/−
CPM Communist Party of India (Marxist)	157	-32	217	1,39,49,664	37.92%	+1.05
INC Indian National Congress	82	+39	288	1,45,23,964	39.48%	+4.36
FBL All India Forward Bloc	21	-8	34	19,12,183	5.20%	-0.32
RSP Revolutionary Socialist Party	18	0	23	13,67,439	3.72%	+0.25
CPI Communist Party of India	6	+1	12	6,42,993	1.75%	+0.21
IND Independent	5	-1	844	9,59,130	2.61%	-0.40
GNLF GNLF	3	+3	3	1,61,498	0.44%	—
JKPN JKPN	1	+1	8	1,45,503	0.40%	—
FBS FBS	1	+1	20	1,23,316	0.34%	—
BJP Bharatiya Janata Party	0	0	292	23,72,480	6.45%	-4.89
JMM Jharkhand Mukti Morcha	0	0	26	1,34,436	0.37%	+0.06
JD Janata Dal	0	-1	5	1,05,697	0.29%	-0.39
RCPIR RCPIR	0	0	2	1,05,366	0.29%	—
BSP Bahujan Samaj Party	0	0	48	67,853	0.18%	-0.10
CPI(ML)(L)CPI(ML)(L)	0	0	30	47,206	0.13%	—
ABGL ABGL	0	0	3	43,261	0.12%	0.00
SHS Shiv Sena	0	0	33	31,857	0.09%	+0.08
AIICT AIICT	0	0	29	20,555	0.06%	—
MUL Indian Union Muslim League	0	0	20	19,221	0.05%	-0.04
AMB AMB	0	0	46	17,330	0.05%	-0.02
JMMM JMMM	0	0	5	11,593	0.03%	—
PBRML PBRML	0	0	5	5,359	0.01%	—
INL INL	0	0	7	4,480	0.01%	—
SAP SAP	0	0	16	4,476	0.01%	—
JKP JKP	0	-1	5	3,533	0.01%	-0.32
HJKP HJKP	0	0	2	3,309	0.01%	—
BMSM BMSM	0	0	2	2,448	0.01%	—
SWJP SWJP	0	0	2	1,218	0.00%	—
IDPP IDPP	0	0	3	515	0.00%	—
AICDBPP AICDBPP	0	0	1	392	0.00%	—
IUML Indian Union Muslim League	0	0	1	251	0.00%	—
ABHM ABHM	0	0	2	178	0.00%	—
ABJS ABJS	0	0	1	49	0.00%	—

CPM157 (53%)
INC82 (28%)
FBL21 (7%)
RSP18 (6%)
CPI6 (2%)
IND5 (2%)
Others5 (2%)

CPM157
INC82
FBL21
RSP18
CPI6
IND5
Others5

CPM157
INC82
FBL21
RSP18
CPI6
IND5
GNLF3
JKPN1
Others1

Constituency performance

From the 294 results in West Bengal

Closest contest

RAMNAGAR

won by 50 (0.04%)

Biggest victory

CANNING EAST

won by 66,765 (57.11%)

Highest turnout

SABANG

95.80%

Lowest turnout

BARA BAZAR

53.55%

Seat change

Against West Bengal's previous Vidhan Sabha election (1991), matched constituency-for-constituency

Retained223 (76%)
Changed hands71 (24%)

223 constituencies were won by the same party as last time; 71 changed hands.

India’s constituencies have not been redrawn since the 2008 delimitation, so this compares the same seat boundary both times.

Vote share & turnout trend

West Bengal, every Vidhan Sabha election on record

VOTE SHARE

TURNOUT

Assembly seat results

All 294 seats, alphabetical · showing 1–50 of 294

Assembly seat	Winner	Runner-up	Margin	Turnout
ALIPORE	INCSAUGATA ROY	CPMRATHINDRANATH ROYCHOWDHURY	20,71123.57%	67.0%
ALIPURDUARS	RSPNIRMAL DAS	INCMANINDRALAL RAKSHIT	16,49112.62%	81.7%
AMDANGA	CPMHASHIM ABDUL HALIM	INCMD. RAFIQUL ISLAM	6,7694.71%	88.3%
AMTA	CPMPRATYUSH MUKHERJEE	INCPRASUN BAKULY	10,1948.79%	81.4%
ARAIDANGA	INCSABITRI MITRA	CPMSETARA BEGUM	6,6776.07%	87.0%
ARAMBAGH	CPMBINOY DATTA	INCABDUS SUKUR	44,10029.94%	83.7%
ARSA	FBLNISHI KANTA MEHTA	INCKAMAKSHYA PRASAD SINGH DEO	8,8848.70%	73.1%
ASANSOL	INCTAPAS BANERJEE	CPMGOUTAM ROYCHOWDHURY	11,6349.90%	67.2%
ASHOKENAGAR	CPMNIRODE ROY CHOUDHURY	INCDHIMAN ROY	18,50913.51%	83.8%
AURANGABAD	INCHUMAYUN REJA	CPMTOUAB ALI	4,6433.76%	81.2%
AUSGRAM	CPMKARTICK CHANDRA BAG	INCSUKUMAR SAHA	48,48139.48%	83.9%
BADURIA	INCQUAZI ABDUL GUFFAR	CPMMD. SHELIM	5,3034.30%	89.2%
BAGDAHA	FBLKAMALAKSHI BISWAS	INCKALIDAS ADHIKARI	2,6002.06%	88.8%
BAGNAN	INCSABUJ DUTTA	CPMNIRUPAMA CHATTERJEE	2,7302.11%	82.7%
BALAGARH	CPMDIBAKANTA ROUTH	INCBISWANATH MALIK	14,95111.82%	85.3%
BALLY	CPMKANIKA GANGULY	INCBANI KUMAR SINGHA	15,62714.36%	68.9%
BALLYGUNGE	CPMRABIN DEB	INCDIBYENDU BISWAS	1,4811.02%	69.7%
BALRAMPUR	CPMBHANDU MAJHI	INCDULALI MANDI	41,52943.25%	76.8%
BALURGHAT	RSPCHOUDHURY BISWANATH	INCKHAN BIPLAB	8,6217.49%	86.2%
BANDUAN	CPMLAKHIRAM KISKU	INCSITAL CHANDRA HEMBRAM	35,58337.25%	76.0%
BANKURA	CPMPARTHA DE	INCASIS CHAKRABARTTY	14,87611.77%	77.1%
BANSBERIA	INCROBIN MUKHERJEE	CPMPRABIR SENGUPTA	3,2472.56%	82.9%
BARA BAZAR	INCRAJESH KHAITAN	JDMD. ASIRUDDIN	8371.85%	53.5%
BARABANI	INCMANIK UPADHYAY	CPMPARESH MAJI	9,2667.63%	73.2%
BARANAGAR	RSPAMAR CHOUDHURY	INCSILBHADRA DUTTA	7,8904.51%	78.3%
BARASAT	INCASHOKE MUKHERJEE	FBLSARAL DEB	1,8380.81%	82.1%
BARJORA	CPMSUSMITA BISWAS	INCTAPASI BANERJEE	13,72110.67%	81.9%
BARUIPUR	INCSOBHAN DEB CHATTOPADHYAY	CPMSUJAN CHAKRABORTY	1,5261.00%	83.5%
BARWAN	RSPDEBABRATA BANERJEE	INCALI HOSSAIN MONDAL	10,2028.67%	77.3%
BASANTI	RSPSUBHAS NASKAR	INCJAYANTA NASKAR	9,4626.93%	80.6%
BASIRHAT	CPMNARAYAN MUKHERJEE	INCASIT MAZUMDER	1810.12%	86.9%
BEHALA EAST	CPMKUMKUM CHAKRABORTI	INCSONALI GUHA	9,1344.62%	79.4%
BEHALA WEST	CPMNIRMAL MUKHERJEE	INCKUMUD BHATTACHARJEE	1,7920.99%	80.6%
BELDANGA	RSPTIMIR BARAN BHADURI	INCNURUL ISLAM CHOUDHURY	8,1115.92%	80.3%
BELGACHIA EAST	CPMSUBHAS CHAKRABORTY	INCARUNAVA GHOSH	8,9404.10%	74.7%
BELGACHIA WEST	CPMRAJDEO GOALA	INCSADHAN DAS	12,38611.72%	78.9%
BELIAGHATA	CPMMANABENDRA MUKHERJEE	INCKRISHNA DEBNATH	9,6598.82%	75.6%
BERHAMPORE	INCMAYA RANI PAUL	RSPBISWANATH BANERJEE	19,29311.82%	77.6%
BHAGABANGOLA	INCABU SUFIAN SARKAR	CPMNAWAB JANI MEERZA	8530.70%	85.5%
BHAGABANPUR	INCKHANRA AJIT	CPMPRADHAN PRASANTA KUMAR	2930.27%	89.1%
BHANGAR	CPMBADAL ZAMADAR	INCAZIBAR RAHAMAN	38,06029.28%	86.3%
BHARATPUR	RSPID MAHAMMAD	INCSATYA NARAYAN BANERJEE	14,30613.11%	73.1%
BHATAR	CPMSUBHAS MONDAL	INCSUSANTA GHOSH	31,00426.00%	83.4%
BHATPARA	CPMBIDYUT GANGULI	INCDHARMPAL GUPTA	13,64014.03%	70.0%
BIJPUR	CPMKAMAL SENGUPTA BASU	INCMRINAL KANTI SINGHA ROY	13,46611.19%	80.4%
BINPUR	JKPNNAREN HANSDA	CPMDURGA TUDU	4840.45%	80.5%
BISHNUPUR EAST	CPMANANDA KUMAR BISWAS	INCMAHADEB NASKAR	3,5113.30%	83.2%
BISHNUPUR WEST	CPMSANKAR SARAN NASKAR	INCARUNA GHOSH DOSTIDER	5,1374.20%	81.5%
BOLPUR	RSPTAPAN HORE	INCSIBSANKAR BANERJEE	41,09038.61%	74.6%
BONGAON	CPMPANKAJ GHOSH	INCBHUPENDRA NATH SETH	1,6681.17%	86.3%

Vote share and swing on this page are the party’s share of valid votes in West Bengal alone — a different number from its national or all-state figures, and never mixed with them.