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state assembly / GENERAL ELECTION

ISLAMPUR · 1996

West Bengal · Constituency 28

Public archive reference. Candidate names and historical geography are reproduced as supplied. Source rank and vote order are not a reviewed winner declaration.

Candidate records · 9 rows
Source rankCandidatePartyVotesSource vote share
1CHOWDHURY ABDUL KARIMINC50,33443.95%
2MD. FARUQUE AZAMCPM48,93942.73%
3RANJAN HALDERBJP11,82310.32%
4SUBAL SHARMACPI(ML)(L)1,3411.17%
5NITYANANDA MANDALBSP8010.70%
6MD. AFJAL HUSSAININD4350.38%
7NILKAMAL MALLICKIND3640.32%
8SOIBUR RAHMANMUL2990.26%
9AVIJIT DEYIND1920.17%

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Trivedi Centre for Political Data, Ashoka University

TCPD Indian Elections Dataset (TCPD-IED), Trivedi Centre for Political Data, Ashoka University. June 2023 archive.

Valid votes in source114,528
Electors in source156,733

Boundary identifier: 3 · Dataset: tcpd-ae

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