Constituency
32. Kaliaganj
Community mirrorWest Bengal Assembly Election, 1991
WB-KALIAGANJ
CPM 38.9%won by 0.6%INC 38.3%
What changed here
DerivedCommunist Party of India (Marxist) held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 1.8% to 0.6%.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 9.8% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 77.3% between them, down from 95.7% — 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
1,06,536
Margin
645
0.61%
Candidates
8 contested · winner CPM- 1RAMANI KANTA DEB SARMACommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM41,47638.9%
- 2PRAMATHA NATH ROYIndian National Congress · INC40,83138.3%
- 3SATYENDRA NATH OROYBharatiya Janata Party · BJP21,12219.8%
- 4BINANDA BARMANIndependent · IND1,4981.4%
- 5BIMAL DEB SARMAJanahitha Paksha · JP6330.6%
- 6DHARANINDHAR SARKARAMB · AMB4440.4%
- 7GOPAL SARKERIndependent · IND2800.3%
- 8SUSHIL BARMANCommunist Party of India (Marxist-Leninist) (Liberation) · CPIML2520.2%
Since 1987
Derived- Winner then
- CPM
- Winner now
- CPM
- CPM–INC swing
- −1.2%
- CPM share
- 48.7% → 38.9%
- INC share
- 47.0% → 38.3%
- Turnout
- — → —