State · 199642 of 543 seats
West Bengal
West Bengal elects 42 . COMMUNIST PARTY OF INDIA (MARXIST) won 23 of 42 seats.
83Out of every 100 voters here, 83 voted. India: 58.
The numbers
Turnout
82.66%
+24.7 pts vs India
Electors
4.56crore
in 42 constituencies
Women MPs
4
of 21 women candidates
Candidates
397
21 women · NOTA 0.0%
Who won the 42 seats
one tile per constituency, grouped by party
Votes vs seats
pale = share of votes · solid = share of seats
Share of votesShare of seats
CPI(M)37% → 55%
INC40% → 21%
RSP5% → 10%
CPI4% → 7%
FBL3% → 7%
BJP7% → 0%
Independent2% → 0%
Vote share
bars: % of valid votes · right: seats
Notable contests
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Constituencies
42 · tap one for the full result
Amar Roy Pradhan · FBL3,93,66742.2%Sabita Roy · INC3,04,63332.7%Third · FB(S)1,45,07815.6%
Turnout 89.6%Electors 10,64,791Candidates 6NOTA 0 (0.0%)
Joachim Baxla · RSP4,37,37153.1%Pius Tirkey · INC2,99,56136.4%Third · BJP65,4938.0%
Turnout 85.4%Electors 10,00,857Candidates 6NOTA 0 (0.0%)
Jitendra Nath Das · CPI(M)4,34,57748.7%Deb Prasad Roy · INC3,22,11536.1%Third · BJP79,1958.9%
Turnout 86.3%Electors 10,65,484Candidates 12NOTA 0 (0.0%)
R B Rai · CPI(M)3,57,29145.9%K B Chettri · INC2,80,16736.0%Third · BJP68,4218.8%
Turnout 69.5%Electors 12,12,950Candidates 9NOTA 0 (0.0%)
Subrata Mukherjee · CPI(M)3,83,05143.8%Golam Yazdani · INC3,72,09542.5%Third · BJP92,14310.5%
Turnout 81.2%Electors 11,11,134Candidates 10NOTA 0 (0.0%)
Barman Ranen · RSP4,40,28349.0%Satyendra Nath Roy · INC2,96,57633.0%Third · BJP1,45,25716.2%
Turnout 86.8%Electors 10,67,771Candidates 7NOTA 0 (0.0%)
Abul Barkat Ataul G K Choudhury · INC4,17,42748.8%Sailen Sarkar · CPI(M)3,27,60538.3%Third · BJP89,25510.4%
Turnout 86.5%Electors 10,13,006Candidates 13NOTA 0 (0.0%)
Md. Idris Ali · INC3,92,94245.6%Abedin Zainal · CPI(M)3,79,82044.0%Third · BJP66,0957.7%
Turnout 84.8%Electors 10,47,225Candidates 11NOTA 0 (0.0%)
Masudal Hossain Syed · CPI(M)4,52,27346.5%Anarul Hossain Khan · INC4,15,08842.7%Third · BJP60,3396.2%
Turnout 87.6%Electors 11,37,493Candidates 10NOTA 0 (0.0%)
Pramothes Mukherjee · RSP4,49,65648.8%Siddhartha Shankar Ray · INC4,05,29944.0%Third · BJP56,0736.1%
Turnout 81.0%Electors 11,66,530Candidates 9NOTA 0 (0.0%)
Ajoay Mukhopadhyay · CPI(M)4,08,38945.9%Sri Jyotirmoy Bhattacharya · INC3,69,47941.6%Third · BJP71,2898.0%
Turnout 85.2%Electors 10,69,985Candidates 13NOTA 0 (0.0%)
Asim Bala · CPI(M)5,22,15147.0%Protap Kanti Roy · INC4,83,08343.5%Third · BJP80,2987.2%
Turnout 86.9%Electors 13,06,288Candidates 9NOTA 0 (0.0%)
Chitta Basu · FBL4,84,47446.2%Ranjit Kumar Panja · INC4,49,12742.9%Third · BJP65,7226.3%
Turnout 86.3%Electors 12,41,826Candidates 10NOTA 0 (0.0%)
Ajay Chakraborty · CPI4,53,12650.6%Dilip Majumder · INC3,67,11041.0%Third · BJP62,6207.0%
Turnout 89.2%Electors 10,23,023Candidates 7NOTA 0 (0.0%)
Sanat Kumar Mandal · RSP4,18,37348.2%Jogesh Roy · INC2,74,44631.6%Third · Independent1,30,57115.0%
Turnout 84.1%Electors 10,63,564Candidates 5NOTA 0 (0.0%)
Radhika Ranjan Pramanik · CPI(M)4,10,11048.1%Sujit Patwari · INC3,94,04246.2%Third · Independent23,0632.7%
Turnout 86.3%Electors 10,15,000Candidates 6NOTA 0 (0.0%)
Samik Lahiri · CPI(M)4,11,84447.4%Amjad Ali Sardar · INC3,89,31844.8%Third · BJP55,5186.4%
Turnout 80.5%Electors 11,05,494Candidates 8NOTA 0 (0.0%)
Krishna Bose · INC4,99,25447.4%Malini Bhattacharya · CPI(M)4,86,21646.2%Third · BJP52,4705.0%
Turnout 81.9%Electors 13,13,111Candidates 11NOTA 0 (0.0%)
Tarit Baran Topdar · CPI(M)3,99,46649.5%Ghosal Debi · INC3,48,57243.2%Third · BJP47,8845.9%
Turnout 81.5%Electors 10,12,225Candidates 10NOTA 0 (0.0%)
Nirmal Kanti Chatterjee · CPI(M)5,80,45547.4%Ashutosh Laha · INC5,22,16442.6%Third · BJP1,07,5018.8%
Turnout 81.1%Electors 15,44,506Candidates 7NOTA 0 (0.0%)
Debi Prosad Pal · INC2,12,63748.3%Shyamal Bhattacherjee · JD1,47,68633.6%Third · BJP59,39513.5%
Turnout 65.2%Electors 6,93,995Candidates 28NOTA 0 (0.0%)
Ajit Kumar Panja · INC3,35,85552.0%Dipen Ghosh · CPI(M)2,70,87041.9%Third · BJP33,2465.2%
Turnout 72.8%Electors 9,07,284Candidates 12NOTA 0 (0.0%)
Mamata Banerjee · INC4,38,25252.5%Bharati Mukherjee · CPI(M)3,34,99140.1%Third · BJP45,0665.4%
Turnout 73.0%Electors 11,67,381Candidates 13NOTA 0 (0.0%)
Priya Ranjan Das Munsi · INC4,59,05947.9%Susanta Chakraborty · CPI(M)4,25,12844.4%Third · BJP58,3676.1%
Turnout 75.2%Electors 13,11,094Candidates 20NOTA 0 (0.0%)
Hannan Mollah · CPI(M)4,15,59249.1%Minati Adhikari · INC3,87,75045.8%Third · BJP38,0104.5%
Turnout 82.8%Electors 10,43,340Candidates 7NOTA 0 (0.0%)
Pradip Bhattacharya · INC4,49,20546.4%Sudarsan Roy Chaudhuri · CPI(M)4,43,74245.9%Third · BJP60,1226.2%
Turnout 79.3%Electors 12,49,680Candidates 7NOTA 0 (0.0%)
Rupchand Pal · CPI(M)4,52,35349.3%Gouri Sankar Banerjee · INC4,13,85645.1%Third · BJP37,8124.1%
Turnout 85.3%Electors 10,95,875Candidates 9NOTA 0 (0.0%)
Anil Basu · CPI(M)5,44,28959.6%Monoranjan Hazra · INC3,17,95634.8%Third · BJP42,7794.7%
Turnout 87.3%Electors 10,67,420Candidates 5NOTA 0 (0.0%)
Geeta Mukherjee · CPI4,55,41454.8%Padma Khastgir · INC3,44,02641.4%Third · BJP15,5631.9%
Turnout 89.9%Electors 9,40,752Candidates 8NOTA 0 (0.0%)
Jayanta Bhattacharya · INC4,50,47348.7%Seth Lakshman Chandra · CPI(M)4,42,56347.8%Third · BJP19,4752.1%
Turnout 89.8%Electors 10,45,585Candidates 7NOTA 0 (0.0%)
Sudhir Giri · CPI(M)3,97,02848.7%Nitish Sengupta · INC3,72,98645.8%Third · BJP32,9244.0%
Turnout 89.0%Electors 9,31,232Candidates 7NOTA 0 (0.0%)
Indrajit Gupta · CPI4,88,56956.3%D P Roy · INC2,77,92032.0%Third · BJP58,7516.8%
Turnout 84.5%Electors 10,51,814Candidates 16NOTA 0 (0.0%)
Rupchand Murmu · CPI(M)4,85,49860.3%Subodh Hansda · INC1,38,23417.2%Third · JKP(N)87,64710.9%
Turnout 87.7%Electors 9,43,958Candidates 7NOTA 0 (0.0%)
Bir Sing Mahato · FBL3,75,55951.0%Gobinda Mukherjee · INC2,65,68936.1%Third · JMM64,1418.7%
Turnout 79.2%Electors 9,67,200Candidates 9NOTA 0 (0.0%)
Acharia Basudeb · CPI(M)4,20,40256.2%Gouri Sankar Dey · INC1,91,41525.6%Third · JMM59,3727.9%
Turnout 78.0%Electors 9,94,144Candidates 12NOTA 0 (0.0%)
Sandhya Bauri · CPI(M)4,80,77758.1%Ashis Rajak · INC2,14,93126.0%Third · BJP79,3579.6%
Turnout 84.1%Electors 10,11,830Candidates 6NOTA 0 (0.0%)
Sunil Khan · CPI(M)4,96,25055.7%Chittaranjan Pramanik · INC3,14,53735.3%Third · BJP73,5998.3%
Turnout 80.6%Electors 11,39,493Candidates 5NOTA 0 (0.0%)
Haradhan Roy · CPI(M)3,76,80646.4%Sukumar Bandyopadhyay · INC3,29,85640.6%Third · BJP69,7378.6%
Turnout 69.7%Electors 12,07,881Candidates 11NOTA 0 (0.0%)
Balai Ray · CPI(M)5,78,27959.9%Ritesh Kumar Dutta · INC3,15,56532.7%Third · BJP54,9175.7%
Turnout 86.0%Electors 11,44,191Candidates 8NOTA 0 (0.0%)
Mahaboob Zahedi · CPI(M)4,75,26450.5%Nurul Islam · INC3,69,06239.2%Third · BJP77,3388.2%
Turnout 86.2%Electors 11,14,733Candidates 8NOTA 0 (0.0%)
Somnath Chatterjee · CPI(M)4,71,54960.5%Sunil Das · INC2,17,90328.0%Third · BJP76,5489.8%
Turnout 82.1%Electors 9,77,226Candidates 7NOTA 0 (0.0%)
Ramchandra Dome · CPI(M)4,02,89350.4%Mamata Saha · INC2,91,87336.5%Third · BJP88,34311.0%
Turnout 83.2%Electors 9,94,683Candidates 6NOTA 0 (0.0%)
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About this data
Source: Election Commission of India, statistical reports for the 1996 Lok Sabha election (detailed results, list of winners, list of parties). Vote shares are of valid votes, excluding NOTA, as ECI reports them. Turnout here is votes counted (including NOTA) divided by electors, so it runs slightly below ECI's official figure, which also counts rejected votes.
Constituencies of today's Telangana (16), Jharkhand (14), Chhattisgarh (11), Uttarakhand (5) are placed there by name; at the time they were part of Andhra Pradesh, Bihar, Madhya Pradesh, Uttar Pradesh, and a few boundaries straddled the present state lines.
Map boundaries are approximate and for illustration.