Constituency
13. Falakata
Community mirrorWest Bengal Assembly Election, 1991
WB-FALAKATA
CPM 46.1%won by 7.0%INC 39.1%
What changed here
DerivedCommunist Party of India (Marxist) held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 7.6% to 7.0%.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 6.6% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 85.2% between them, down from 97.7% — the field split more ways.
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
99,742
Margin
7,004
7.02%
Candidates
6 contested · winner CPM- 1JOGESH CHANDRA BARMANCommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM45,97146.1%
- 2GAJENDRA NATH BARMANIndian National Congress · INC38,96739.1%
- 3BIDHU BHUSAN ROYBharatiya Janata Party · BJP11,96112.0%
- 4GANGADHAR ROYIndependent · IND1,6281.6%
- 5TARINI ROYIndependent · IND6640.7%
- 6NARESH CHANDRA BARMANAMB · AMB5510.6%
Since 1987
Derived- Winner then
- CPM
- Winner now
- CPM
- CPM–INC swing
- −0.6%
- CPM share
- 52.7% → 46.1%
- INC share
- 45.1% → 39.1%
- Turnout
- — → —