Constituency
26. Phansidewa
Community mirrorWest Bengal Assembly Election, 1991
WB-PHANSIDEWA
CPM 47.0%won by 7.2%INC 39.8%
What changed here
DerivedCommunist Party of India (Marxist) held the seat; the winning margin widened from 5.8% to 7.2%.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 86.8% between them, down from 93.0% — 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
1,32,055
Margin
9,502
7.20%
Candidates
8 contested · winner CPM- 1PROKASH MINJCommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM62,07647.0%
- 2ISWAR CHANDRA TIRKEYIndian National Congress · INC52,57439.8%
- 3TERESER SORANG CHACKOBharatiya Janata Party · BJP10,4417.9%
- 4BANDHAN URAONIndependent · IND2,2031.7%
- 5SHANTI SARKER (MUNDA)Independent · IND1,9161.5%
- 6BABUN MURMUBahujan Samaj Party · BSP1,5021.1%
- 7BIGU URAONIndependent · IND1,0960.8%
- 8SUKLAL TUDUIndependent · IND2470.2%
Since 1987
Derived- Winner then
- CPM
- Winner now
- CPM
- CPM–INC swing
- +1.4%
- CPM share
- 49.4% → 47.0%
- INC share
- 43.6% → 39.8%
- Turnout
- — → —