Constituency
31. Raiganj
Community mirrorWest Bengal Assembly Election, 1991
WB-RAIGANJ
CPM 37.3%won by 4.3%INC 33.0%
What changed here
DerivedCommunist Party of India (Marxist) held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 12.2% to 4.3%.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 15.4% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 70.3% between them, down from 93.1% — 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
1,19,045
Margin
5,062
4.25%
Candidates
8 contested · winner CPM- 1KHAGENDRA NATH SINHACommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM44,39937.3%
- 2DILIP DASIndian National Congress · INC39,33733.0%
- 3SURESH CHANDRA SADBharatiya Janata Party · BJP29,63324.9%
- 4MADAN SAHAIndependent · IND2,0051.7%
- 5ANITYA RANJAN ROYIndependent · IND1,7571.5%
- 6MANINDRA BARMANAMB · AMB8900.7%
- 7MALIN CHANDRA BARMANIndependent · IND5900.5%
- 8SUBASH CHANDRA BALABahujan Samaj Party · BSP4340.4%
Since 1987
Derived- Winner then
- CPM
- Winner now
- CPM
- CPM–INC swing
- −7.9%
- CPM share
- 52.6% → 37.3%
- INC share
- 40.5% → 33.0%
- Turnout
- — → —