Constituency
5. Cooch Behar West
Community mirrorWest Bengal Assembly Election, 1991
WB-COOCH-BEHAR-WEST
FBL 54.5%won by 25.6%INC 28.9%
What changed here
DerivedFBL held the seat; the winning margin widened from 13.5% to 25.6%.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 83.4% between them, down from 99.2% — the field split more ways.
- Safe seatFBL 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
1,25,944
Margin
32,190
25.56%
Candidates
7 contested · winner FBL- 1SOUMINDRA CHANRA DASFBL · FBL68,64054.5%
- 2RAMKRISHNA PALIndian National Congress · INC36,45028.9%
- 3HARIPADA PAULBharatiya Janata Party · BJP18,32014.5%
- 4GOPAL RAYBahujan Samaj Party · BSP1,3821.1%
- 5ASIT DEIndependent · IND6350.5%
- 6KARJEE NIRENDRA PRASADAMB · AMB4200.3%
- 7AJIT KUMAR DEIndependent · IND970.1%
Since 1987
Derived- Winner then
- FBL
- Winner now
- FBL
- FBL–INC swing
- +12.1%
- FBL share
- 56.3% → 54.5%
- INC share
- 42.9% → 28.9%
- Turnout
- — → —