Constituency
3. Mathabhanga
Community mirrorWest Bengal Assembly Election, 1991
WB-MATHABHANGA
CPM 50.9%won by 17.5%INC 33.4%
What changed here
DerivedCommunist Party of India (Marxist) held the seat; the winning margin widened from 5.7% to 17.5%.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 84.2% between them, down from 99.2% — the field split more ways.
- 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
1,09,316
Margin
19,118
17.49%
Candidates
6 contested · winner CPM- 1DINESH CHANDRA DUKUACommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM55,60450.9%
- 2PRASENJIT BARMANIndian National Congress · INC36,48633.4%
- 3ABINAS SINHABharatiya Janata Party · BJP14,38213.2%
- 4PAPIYA BARMANBahujan Samaj Party · BSP2,0401.9%
- 5MANIK BARMANIndependent · IND4130.4%
- 6SACHINDRA NATH BARMANIndependent · IND3910.4%
Since 1987
Derived- Winner then
- CPM
- Winner now
- CPM
- CPM–INC swing
- +11.7%
- CPM share
- 52.5% → 50.9%
- INC share
- 46.8% → 33.4%
- Turnout
- — → —