Constituency
21. Rajganj
Community mirrorWest Bengal Assembly Election, 1991
WB-RAJGANJ
CPM 48.9%won by 17.5%INC 31.4%
What changed here
DerivedCommunist Party of India (Marxist) held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 22.4% to 17.5%.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 10.8% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 80.3% between them, down from 97.0% — 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
1,34,074
Margin
23,513
17.54%
Candidates
9 contested · winner CPM- 1JATINDRA NATH ROYCommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM65,58248.9%
- 2AJIT KUMAR ROYIndian National Congress · INC42,06931.4%
- 3JOGENDRA NATH ROYBharatiya Janata Party · BJP18,08413.5%
- 4SUDHIR CHANDRA SARKARIndependent · IND3,5392.6%
- 5BIRENDRA NATH OROYIndependent · IND1,3071.0%
- 6KALI CHARAN ROYIndependent · IND1,2811.0%
- 7JADAV BARMANCommunist Party of India (Marxist-Leninist) (Liberation) · CPIML9710.7%
- 8MANGAL CHANDRA ROYBahujan Samaj Party · BSP8720.7%
- 9HARENDRA NATH RAYAMB · AMB3690.3%
Since 1987
Derived- Winner then
- CPM
- Winner now
- CPM
- CPM–INC swing
- −4.9%
- CPM share
- 59.7% → 48.9%
- INC share
- 37.3% → 31.4%
- Turnout
- — → —