WEST BENGAL · 1996

42 seats

Seats42

Electors4.56 Cr

Votes polled3.77 Cr

Median turnout84.5%

Other years: 2024 2019 2014 2009 2004 1999 1998 1991 1989 1984 1980 1977 1971 1967 1962 1957 1952

Party standings

42 seats · majority 22

Communist Party Of India (MARXIST) 23 of 42 seats · 54.8% majority

Communist Party Of India (MARXIST) 23

Indian National Congress 9

Revolutionary Socialist Party 4

All India Forward Bloc 3

Communist Party Of India 3

Every seat

by constituency number

#	Constituency	Winner	Party	Votes	Margin	Margin %	Turnout
1	Cooch BeharSC	Amar Roy Pradhan	AIFB	953,613	89,034	9.3	89.6
2	AlipurduarsST	Joachim Baxla	RSP	854,456	137,810	16.1	85.4
3	JalpaiguriSC	Jitendra Nath Das	CPIM	919,243	112,462	12.2	86.3
4	Darjeeling	R B Rai	CPIM	843,297	77,124	9.1	69.5
5	Raiganj	Subrata Mukherjee	CPIM	901,716	10,956	1.2	81.2
6	Balurghat	Barman Ranen	RSP	926,427	143,707	15.5	86.8
7	Malda	Abul Barkat Ataul G K Choudhury	INC	876,253	89,822	10.3	86.5
8	Jangipur	Md. Idris Ali	INC	887,589	13,122	1.5	84.8
9	Murshidabad	Masudal Hossain Syed	CPIM	996,549	37,185	3.7	87.6
10	Berhampore	Pramothes Mukherjee	RSP	945,166	44,357	4.7	81.0
11	Krishnagar	Ajoay Mukhopadhyay	CPIM	911,616	38,910	4.3	85.2
12	Nabadwip	Asim Bala	CPIM	1,135,004	39,068	3.4	86.9
13	BarasatSC	Chitta Basu	AIFB	1,072,009	35,347	3.3	86.3
14	BasirhatSC	Ajay Chakraborty	CPI	912,574	86,016	9.4	89.2
15	Joynagar	Sanat Kumar Mandal	RSP	894,592	143,927	16.1	84.1
16	Mathurapur	Radhika Ranjan Pramanik	CPIM	875,404	16,068	1.8	86.3
17	Diamond Harbour	Samik Lahiri	CPIM	889,735	22,526	2.5	80.5
18	Jadavpur	Krishna Bose	INC	1,075,315	13,038	1.2	81.9
19	BarrackporeSC	Tarit Baran Topdar	CPIM	825,298	50,894	6.2	81.5
20	Dum DumSC	Nirmal Kanti Chatterjee	CPIM	1,252,429	58,291	4.7	81.1
21	Calcutta North West	Debi Prosad Pal	INC	452,757	64,951	14.3	65.2
22	Calcutta North East	Ajit Kumar Panja	INC	660,413	64,985	9.8	72.8
23	Calcutta South	Mamata Banerjee	INC	852,458	103,261	12.1	73.0
24	Howrah	Priya Ranjan Das Munsi	INC	985,507	33,931	3.4	75.2
25	Uluberia	Hannan Mollah	CPIM	863,906	27,842	3.2	82.8
26	Serampore	Pradip Bhattacharya	INC	990,773	5,463	0.6	79.3
27	Hooghly	Rupchand Pal	CPIM	934,941	38,497	4.1	85.3
28	Arambagh	Anil Basu	CPIM	931,653	226,333	24.3	87.3
29	PanskuraSC	Geeta Mukherjee	CPI	845,529	111,388	13.2	89.9
30	Tamluk	Jayanta Bhattacharya	INC	938,889	7,910	0.8	89.8
31	Contai	Sudhir Giri	CPIM	829,074	24,042	2.9	89.0
32	Midnapore	Indrajit Gupta	CPI	889,188	210,649	23.7	84.5
33	JhargramST	Rupchand Murmu	CPIM	827,962	347,264	41.9	87.7
34	Purulia	Bir Sing Mahato	AIFB	765,833	109,870	14.3	79.2
35	Bankura	Acharia Basudeb	CPIM	774,916	228,987	29.5	78.0
36	Vishnupur	Sandhya Bauri	CPIM	851,257	265,846	31.2	84.1
37	DurgapurSC	Sunil Khan	CPIM	917,970	181,713	19.8	80.6
38	AsansolSC	Haradhan Roy	CPIM	841,736	46,950	5.6	69.7
39	Burdwan	Balai Ray	CPIM	983,515	262,714	26.7	86.0
40	Katwa	Mahaboob Zahedi	CPIM	960,916	106,202	11.1	86.2
41	BolpurSC	Somnath Chatterjee	CPIM	802,298	253,646	31.6	82.1
42	Birbhum	Ramchandra Dome	CPIM	827,366	111,020	13.4	83.2