Constituency
23. Darjeeling
Community mirrorWest Bengal Assembly Election, 1991
WB-DARJEELING
IND 54.5%won by 14.0%ABGL 40.5%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Communist Party of India (Marxist) (CPM) lost it to Independent (IND), which now leads by 14.0%.
- IND vote shareIND went from 1.1% to 54.5% of the vote here (+53.4%).
- New challengerABGL (ABGL) finished second with 40.5% — it did not contest here in 1987.
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
87,546
Margin
12,233
13.97%
Candidates
4 contested · winner IND- 1NARENDRA KUMAIIndependent · IND47,72254.5%
- 2J. D. S. RAIABGL · ABGL35,48940.5%
- 3D. P. CHHETRIBharatiya Janata Party · BJP2,5923.0%
- 4SURJA NARAYAN PRADHANIndependent · IND1,7432.0%
Since 1987
Derived- Winner then
- CPM
- Winner now
- INDflipped
- IND–ABGL swing
- +12.8%
- IND share
- 1.1% → 54.5%
- ABGL share
- 0.0% → 40.5%
- Turnout
- — → —