1996
199119891984198019771971196719621957Total Constituencies: 42
West Bengal Lok Sabha Election 1996 covered all 42 parliamentary constituencies in the state. The INC received the highest statewide vote share at 40.09% and won 9 seats, while the CPM received 36.70% of the vote and won 23 seats. The BJP won 0 seats with 6.88% of the vote.
The table below shows party-wise results based on total votes received across West Bengal.
| Party Name | Seats Contested | Seats Won | Vote Share | Vote Share on Contested | Total Votes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 42 | 9 | 40.09% | 40.09% | 1,47,11,538 | |
| CPM | 31 | 23 | 36.70% | 49.08% | 1,34,67,522 |
| 42 | 0 | 6.88% | 6.88% | 25,25,864 | |
| 4 | 4 | 4.76% | 49.70% | 17,45,683 | |
| 3 | 3 | 3.81% | 53.87% | 13,97,109 | |
| FBL | 3 | 3 | 3.42% | 46.15% | 12,53,700 |
| Constituency | Winner | Runner-up | Margin | Margin(%) | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Candidate | Party | Votes | Candidate | Party | Votes | |||
| Cooch Behar | Amar Roy Pradhan | FBL | 3,93,667 | Sabita Roy | INC | 3,04,633 | 89,034 | 9.55 |
| Alipurduars | Joachim Baxla | RSP | 4,37,371 | Pius Tirkey | INC | 2,99,561 | 1,37,810 | 16.74 |
| Jalpaiguri | Jitendra Nath Das | CPM | 4,34,577 | Deb Prasad Roy | INC | 3,22,115 | 1,12,462 | 12.6 |
| Darjeeling | R B Rai | CPM | 3,57,291 | K B Chettri | INC | 2,80,167 | 77,124 | 9.91 |
| Raiganj | Subrata Mukherjee | CPM | 3,83,051 | Golam Yazdani | INC | 3,72,095 | 10,956 | 1.25 |
| Balurghat | Barman Ranen | RSP | 4,40,283 | Satyendra Nath Roy | INC | 2,96,576 | 1,43,707 | 16 |
| Malda | Abul Barkat Ataul G K Choudhury | INC | 4,17,427 | Sailen Sarkar | CPM | 3,27,605 | 89,822 | 10.49 |
| Jangipur | Md. Idris Ali | INC | 3,92,942 | Abedin Zainal | CPM | 3,79,820 | 13,122 | 1.52 |
| Murshidabad | Masudal Hossain Syed | CPM | 4,52,273 | Anarul Hossain Khan | INC | 4,15,088 | 37,185 | 3.82 |
| Berhampore | Pramothes Mukherjee | RSP | 4,49,656 | Siddhartha Shankar Ray | INC | 4,05,299 | 44,357 | 4.81 |
| Krishnagar | Ajoay Mukhopadhyay | CPM | 4,08,389 | Sri Jyotirmoy Bhattacharya | INC | 3,69,479 | 38,910 | 4.38 |
| Nabadwip | Asim Bala | CPM | 5,22,151 | Protap Kanti Roy | INC | 4,83,083 | 39,068 | 3.51 |
| Barasat | Chitta Basu | FBL | 4,84,474 | Ranjit Kumar Panja | INC | 4,49,127 | 35,347 | 3.38 |
| Basirhat | Ajay Chakraborty | CPI | 4,53,126 | Dilip Majumder | INC | 3,67,110 | 86,016 | 9.61 |
| Joynagar | Sanat Kumar Mandal | RSP | 4,18,373 | Jogesh Roy | INC | 2,74,446 | 1,43,927 | 16.57 |
| Mathurapur | Radhika Ranjan Pramanik | CPM | 4,10,110 | Sujit Patwari | INC | 3,94,042 | 16,068 | 1.89 |
| Diamond Harbour | Samik Lahiri | CPM | 4,11,844 | Amjad Ali Sardar | INC | 3,89,318 | 22,526 | 2.6 |
| Jadavpur | Krishna Bose | INC | 4,99,254 | Malini Bhattacharya | CPM | 4,86,216 | 13,038 | 1.24 |
| Barrackpore | Tarit Baran Topdar | CPM | 3,99,466 | Ghosal Debi | INC | 3,48,572 | 50,894 | 6.31 |
| Dum Dum | Nirmal Kanti Chatterjee | CPM | 5,80,455 | Ashutosh Laha | INC | 5,22,164 | 58,291 | 4.75 |
| Calcutta North West | Debi Prosad Pal | INC | 2,12,637 | Shyamal Bhattacherjee | JD | 1,47,686 | 64,951 | 14.75 |
| Calcutta North East | Ajit Kumar Panja | INC | 3,35,855 | Dipen Ghosh | CPM | 2,70,870 | 64,985 | 10.05 |
| Calcutta South | Mamata Banerjee | INC | 4,38,252 | Bharati Mukherjee | CPM | 3,34,991 | 1,03,261 | 12.37 |
| Howrah | Priya Ranjan Das Munsi | INC | 4,59,059 | Susanta Chakraborty | CPM | 4,25,128 | 33,931 | 3.54 |
| Uluberia | Hannan Mollah | CPM | 4,15,592 | Minati Adhikari | INC | 3,87,750 | 27,842 | 3.29 |
| Serampore | Pradip Bhattacharya | INC | 4,49,205 | Sudarsan Roy Chaudhuri | CPM | 4,43,742 | 5,463 | 0.57 |
| Hooghly | Rupchand Pal | CPM | 4,52,353 | Gouri Sankar Banerjee | INC | 4,13,856 | 38,497 | 4.19 |
| Arambagh | Anil Basu | CPM | 5,44,289 | Monoranjan Hazra | INC | 3,17,956 | 2,26,333 | 24.77 |
| Panskura | Geeta Mukherjee | CPI | 4,55,414 | Padma Khastgir | INC | 3,44,026 | 1,11,388 | 13.41 |
| Tamluk | Jayanta Bhattacharya | INC | 4,50,473 | Seth Lakshman Chandra | CPM | 4,42,563 | 7,910 | 0.85 |
| Contai | Sudhir Giri | CPM | 3,97,028 | Nitish Sengupta | INC | 3,72,986 | 24,042 | 2.95 |
| Midnapore | Indrajit Gupta | CPI | 4,88,569 | D P Roy | INC | 2,77,920 | 2,10,649 | 24.27 |
| Jhargram | Rupchand Murmu | CPM | 4,85,498 | Subodh Hansda | INC | 1,38,234 | 3,47,264 | 43.12 |
| Purulia | Bir Sing Mahato | FBL | 3,75,559 | Gobinda Mukherjee | INC | 2,65,689 | 1,09,870 | 14.93 |
| Bankura | Acharia Basudeb | CPM | 4,20,402 | Gouri Sankar Dey | INC | 1,91,415 | 2,28,987 | 30.63 |
| Vishnupur | Sandhya Bauri | CPM | 4,80,777 | Ashis Rajak | INC | 2,14,931 | 2,65,846 | 32.15 |
| Durgapur | Sunil Khan | CPM | 4,96,250 | Chittaranjan Pramanik | INC | 3,14,537 | 1,81,713 | 20.39 |
| Asansol | Haradhan Roy | CPM | 3,76,806 | Sukumar Bandyopadhyay | INC | 3,29,856 | 46,950 | 5.77 |
| Burdwan | Balai Ray | CPM | 5,78,279 | Ritesh Kumar Dutta | INC | 3,15,565 | 2,62,714 | 27.22 |
| Katwa | Mahaboob Zahedi | CPM | 4,75,264 | Nurul Islam | INC | 3,69,062 | 1,06,202 | 11.27 |
| Bolpur | Somnath Chatterjee | CPM | 4,71,549 | Sunil Das | INC | 2,17,903 | 2,53,646 | 32.57 |
| Birbhum | Ramchandra Dome | CPM | 4,02,893 | Mamata Saha | INC | 2,91,873 | 1,11,020 | 13.87 |
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