Forward Bloc (SOCIALIST) on Cooch Behar

State 19 · Lok Sabha · 13 contests on this seat

Record on this seat

WON 0 OF 2 contested

FBS runner-up 1 time

Strike rate

0%

wins as a share of contests fought

The party's figures here

counted from 2 published candidatures

Best vote share29.80%in 1998

Worst vote share15.20%in 1996

Average vote share22.50% mean across contests carrying a share

First contested1996

Last contested1998

Votes polled here4.18 Lacross all 2 contests

Vote share by year

vote %, against every contest this seat has held

Forward Bloc (SOCIALIST) vote share · a ringed point is a year they won this seat · a dashed upright is a contest with no point for this party, where the line breaks rather than touching zero.

Did not contest: 1977, 1980, 1984, 1989, 1991, 1999, 2004, 2009, 2014, 2019, 2024 — the seat went to the polls in those years and this party fielded no candidate. The line is broken there. It is not zero.

Every contest

2 candidatures · most recent first

Year	Candidate	Votes	Vote %	Position	Result
1998	Gobinda Roy	2,72,974	29.80%	2	Lost · 2nd
1996	Hiten Barman	1,45,078	15.20%	3	Lost · 3rd

Other parties on this seat

by best finish

All India Forward Bloc All India Trinamool Congress Bharatiya Janta Party Indian National Congress Indian National Congress (I)Independent Bahujan Samaj Party Janta Party (SECULAR)West Bengal Trinamool Congress Amara Bengali Janta Party Indian National Congress (O) ANTI-MERGER GROUP Nationalist Congress Party Rashtriya Janadhikar Suraksha Party Socialist Unity Centre Of India (COMMUNIST)Kamatapur People’s Party (United)Republican Party Of India (A)Samajwadi Party Amra Bangalee Welfare Party Of India