Constituency
19. Kranti
Community mirrorWest Bengal Assembly Election, 1991
WB-KRANTI
CPM 55.5%won by 25.1%INC 30.4%
What changed here
DerivedCommunist Party of India (Marxist) held the seat; the winning margin widened from 23.3% to 25.1%.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 3.5% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 86.0% between them, down from 94.8% — 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
91,402
Margin
22,968
25.13%
Candidates
9 contested · winner CPM- 1SUDHAN RAHACommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM50,76555.5%
- 2AFTABUL ALAMIndian National Congress · INC27,79730.4%
- 3KUMAR SANKAR KARBharatiya Janata Party · BJP7,8458.6%
- 4KAMAL BHOWMICKCommunist Party of India (Marxist-Leninist) (Liberation) · CPIML2,0242.2%
- 5BHUPENDRA NATH ROYIndependent · IND1,1281.2%
- 6MAHANANDA ROYBahujan Samaj Party · BSP5240.6%
- 7SATYENDRA NATH SARKARIndependent · IND5220.6%
- 8GOURI ROYIndependent · IND4160.5%
- 9UPEN ROYIndependent · IND3810.4%
Since 1987
Derived- Winner then
- CPM
- Winner now
- CPM
- CPM–INC swing
- +1.8%
- CPM share
- 59.1% → 55.5%
- INC share
- 35.8% → 30.4%
- Turnout
- — → —