Constituency
22. Kalimpong
Community mirrorWest Bengal Assembly Election, 1991
WB-KALIMPONG
IND 59.4%won by 39.2%CPI 20.2%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Communist Party of India (CPI) lost it to Independent (IND), which now leads by 39.2%.
- IND vote shareIND went from 1.0% to 59.4% of the vote here (+58.3%).
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 79.5% between them, down from 99.0% — 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
81,395
Margin
31,926
39.22%
Candidates
8 contested · winner IND- 1NIMA TSHERING MOKTANIndependent · IND48,33259.4%
- 2MOHAN SINGH RAI (DUKHUN)Communist Party of India · CPI16,40620.2%
- 3UDAI PRAKASH RAIBharatiya Janata Party · BJP8,41810.3%
- 4LESLIE JOHN CHATERIndependent · IND3,8864.8%
- 5C.B. RANAIndependent · IND2,0302.5%
- 6R. B. KHATIWARAIndependent · IND1,4541.8%
- 7S.R. BHUTIAIndependent · IND4680.6%
- 8R. K. SUMANIndependent · IND4010.5%
Since 1987
Derived- Winner then
- CPI
- Winner now
- INDflipped
- IND–CPI swing
- +129.8%
- IND share
- 1.0% → 59.4%
- CPI share
- 91.6% → 20.2%
- Turnout
- — → —