Constituency
20. Jalpaiguri
Community mirrorWest Bengal Assembly Election, 1991
WB-JALPAIGURI
INC 43.9%won by 2.0%FBL 41.9%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: FBL (FBL) lost it to Indian National Congress (INC), which now leads by 2.0%.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 85.8% between them, down from 95.3% — 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
96,583
Margin
1,931
2.00%
Candidates
9 contested · winner INC- 1ANUPAM SENIndian National Congress · INC42,42343.9%
- 2NIRMAL KUMAR BASUFBL · FBL40,49241.9%
- 3SAMARENDRA PRASAD BISWASBharatiya Janata Party · BJP8,2058.5%
- 4AMAL ROYCommunist Party of India (Marxist-Leninist) (Liberation) · CPIML1,3481.4%
- 5KUKUNDA SARKARIndependent · IND1,1991.2%
- 6HIMANGSHU DEYBahujan Samaj Party · BSP1,1931.2%
- 7ANIL KUMAR ROYIndependent · IND1,1231.2%
- 8BHIM CHANDRA ROYIndependent · IND3480.4%
- 9BABUL SARKARAMB · AMB2520.3%
Since 1987
Derived- Winner then
- FBL
- Winner now
- INCflipped
- INC–FBL swing
- +7.9%
- INC share
- 44.7% → 43.9%
- FBL share
- 50.6% → 41.9%
- Turnout
- — → —