Constituency
2. Sitalkuchi
Community mirrorWest Bengal Assembly Election, 1991
WB-SITALKUCHI
CPM 58.5%won by 28.8%INC 29.7%
What changed here
DerivedCommunist Party of India (Marxist) held the seat; the winning margin widened from 3.5% to 28.8%.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 88.1% between them, down from 99.5% — the field split more ways.
- Safe seatCommunist Party of India (Marxist) won by more than 25 points — a stronghold, not a contest.
- Multi-cornered3 candidates cleared 5% — a genuinely multi-cornered fight.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
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Turnout
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Valid votes
1,12,415
Margin
32,337
28.77%
Candidates
7 contested · winner CPM- 1SUDHIR PRAMANIKCommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM65,71058.5%
- 2AMBIKA CHARAN RAYIndian National Congress · INC33,37329.7%
- 3RANJIT TOY BASUNIABharatiya Janata Party · BJP9,0458.0%
- 4DIPAK RAYBahujan Samaj Party · BSP2,7152.4%
- 5BISNU MANI PATOWARYIndependent · IND9120.8%
- 6SUBODH BARMANIndependent · IND3730.3%
- 7DHIREN BARMANIndependent · IND2870.3%
Since 1987
Derived- Winner then
- CPM
- Winner now
- CPM
- CPM–INC swing
- +25.2%
- CPM share
- 51.5% → 58.5%
- INC share
- 48.0% → 29.7%
- Turnout
- — → —