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 251–294 of 294

Assembly seat	Winner	Runner-up	Margin	Turnout
RANAGHAT WEST	INCSANKAR SINGHA	CPMNAG SOURENDRA NATH	4,1222.66%	86.8%
RANIBANDH	CPMDEBLINA HEMBRAM	INCANIL HANSDA	32,40930.96%	75.3%
RANIGANJ	CPMCHOWDHURY BANSA GOPAL	INCSENAPATI MONDAL	35,64831.39%	70.9%
RASHBEHARI AVENUE	INCHOIMI BASU	CPMRANJAN BANERJEE	20,62825.21%	68.4%
RATUA	INCSAMAR MUKHERJEE	CPMMOZAMMEL HAQUE	2,9662.68%	83.5%
SABANG	INDBANGAL MAKHANLAL	INCMANAS BHUNIA	8250.68%	95.8%
SAGAR	CPMPRABHANJAN MONDAL	INCHARIPADA SEN	6,4114.76%	89.7%
SAGARDIGHI	CPMDAS PARESH NATH	INCNRISINGHA KUMAR MONDAL	6,6975.87%	83.3%
SALBANI	CPMKHAGENDRA NATH MAHATO	JKPNTAPAS DAS	39,61436.66%	84.5%
SANDESHKHALI	CPMKANTI BISWAS	INCRANJIT KUMARDAS	21,87818.26%	83.1%
SANKRAIL	INCSITAL KUMAR SARDAR	CPMBASUDEB DHALI	4,9883.58%	77.5%
SANTIPUR	INCAJOY DE	RCPIRBIMALANANDA MUKHERJEE	10,3706.54%	86.4%
SATGACHIA	CPMJYOTI BASU	INCBAG CHITTA RANJAN	11,1109.23%	81.8%
SEALDAH	INCSOMENDRA NATH MITRA	CPIARUN PRAKASH CHATTERJEE	20,96540.85%	61.3%
SERAMPORE	INCJYOTI CHOWDHURY	CPMASIMES GOSWAMI	15,91214.17%	69.0%
SHIBPUR	INCJATU LAHIRI	FBLPRABIR KUMAR BANERJEE	14,8747.31%	74.3%
SHYAMPUKUR	FBLSANTI RANJAN GANGULY	INCSAMIR CHAKRABORTY	2,6354.12%	72.4%
SHYAMPUR	INCSANJIB KUMAR DAS	FBLJALADHAR SAMANTA	3,5272.90%	81.9%
SILIGURI	CPMASOK BHATTACHARYA	INCSANKAR MALAKAR	54,07328.20%	72.5%
SINGUR	CPMDAS BIDYUT KUMAR	INCDWIJAPROSAD BHATTACHARYA	7,7065.88%	82.9%
SITAI	INDMD. FAZLE HAQUE	FBLNRIPENDRA NATH RAY	36,21024.83%	88.3%
SITALKUCHI	CPMSUDHIR PRAMANIK	INCBIRENDRA NARAYAN BARMA	32,75725.30%	89.8%
SONAMUKHI	CPMHARADHAN BAURI	INCPULAKESH SAHA	24,49221.38%	83.6%
SONARPUR	CPMBHADRESWAR MONDAL	INCNIRMAL MONDAL	9,0594.59%	80.6%
SURI	INCSUNITI CHATTARAJ	CPMTAPAN ROY	6,7395.00%	83.6%
SUTAHATA	INCTUSHAR KANTI MANDAL	CPMNITYANANDA BERA	5,2233.26%	88.3%
SUTI	INCMD. SOHRAB	RSPSHISH MOHAMMAD	4310.37%	73.7%
SUZAPUR	INCRUBI NOOR	CPMABDUR RAUF	33,15329.03%	86.6%
SWARUPNAGAR	CPMMOSTAFA BIN QUASSEM	INCDIPTI JANA	5,9224.64%	87.8%
TALDANGRA	CPMMONORANJAN PATRA	INCDEBAPRASAD SINGHA BARATHAKUR	45,02935.73%	84.4%
TALTOLA	CPMTAPATI SAHA	INCSAMBHUNATH KOW (LALU)	12,49613.47%	70.8%
TAMLUK	INCANIL MUDI	CPISURAJIT BAGCHI	3300.25%	88.0%
TAPAN	RSPKHARA SOREN	INCLAKSHMI RAM HEMBRAM	25,39721.02%	85.8%
TARAKESWAR	CPMPRATIM CHATTERJEE	INCAJIT KUMAR GHOSH	21,51917.63%	86.9%
TITAGARH	CPMPRABIN KUMAR SHAW	INCASHOK SHUKLA	5470.62%	73.3%
TOLLYGUNGE	INCPANKAJ BANERJEE	CPMASHIS ROY	2,6822.40%	75.8%
TUFANGANJ	CPMPUSPA CHANDRA DAS	INCSACHINDR CHANDRA DAS	26,85322.13%	87.8%
UDAYNARAYANPUR	CPMNANIGOPAL CHOWDHURY	INCSYAMAL RANJAN KARAR	18,85315.87%	84.0%
UKHRA	CPMBAGDI LAKHAN	INCJETHU RAM	8,5766.14%	60.5%
ULUBERIA NORTH	INCRAMJANAM MAJHI	CPMASTA DAS	7,5596.00%	77.4%
ULUBERIA SOUTH	FBLGHOSE RABINDRA	INCPULAK ROY	9,3607.89%	76.0%
UTTARPARA	CPMJYOTI KRISHNA CHATTAPADHYAY	INCPABITRA GUPTA	5,7513.71%	76.9%
VIDYASAGAR	INCTAPAS ROY	CPMABIR LAL MUKHERJEE	6,4948.68%	64.3%
VISHNUPUR	CPMJAYANTA CHOWDHURY	INCBUDDHADEB MUKHERJEE	24,25020.31%	84.4%

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.

Frequently asked

Straight answers to the questions this result page exists to answer.

Who won the West Bengal assembly election, Feb 1996?

Communist Party of India (Marxist) won 157 of 294 seats in West Bengal, a clear majority.

What was the voter turnout in the West Bengal assembly election, Feb 1996?

Turnout was 80.64% — 3.68 cr of 4.56 cr registered electors voted.

How many assembly seats does West Bengal have?

West Bengal has 294 assembly seats.