Constituency
15. Dhupguri
Community mirrorWest Bengal Assembly Election, 1991
WB-DHUPGURI
CPM 50.6%won by 20.3%INC 30.3%
What changed here
DerivedCommunist Party of India (Marxist) held the seat; the winning margin held roughly steady from 19.9% to 20.3%.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 8.7% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 80.9% between them, down from 98.6% — 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
95,550
Margin
19,358
20.26%
Candidates
6 contested · winner CPM- 1BANAMALI ROYCommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM48,32550.6%
- 2BIRENDRA NATH BARMANIndian National Congress · INC28,96730.3%
- 3JURAN CHANDRA SARKARBharatiya Janata Party · BJP14,00414.7%
- 4BULENDRA NATH ROYIndependent · IND3,5043.7%
- 5DINABANDHU ROYBahujan Samaj Party · BSP5730.6%
- 6SURESH CHANDRA ROYIndependent · IND1770.2%
Since 1987
Derived- Winner then
- CPM
- Winner now
- CPM
- CPM–INC swing
- +0.4%
- CPM share
- 59.3% → 50.6%
- INC share
- 39.4% → 30.3%
- Turnout
- — → —