Constituency
35. Gangarampur
Community mirrorWest Bengal Assembly Election, 1991
WB-GANGARAMPUR
CPM 44.0%won by 3.7%INC 40.2%
What changed here
DerivedCommunist Party of India (Marxist) held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 11.6% to 3.7%.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 10.3% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 84.2% between them, down from 97.0% — 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
1,28,902
Margin
4,831
3.75%
Candidates
6 contested · winner CPM- 1MINATI GHOSHCommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM56,65644.0%
- 2BIPLAB MITRAIndian National Congress · INC51,82540.2%
- 3ASHIS MAZUMDARBharatiya Janata Party · BJP18,27314.2%
- 4JIBAN CHAKRABORTYIndependent · IND1,6031.2%
- 5ABDUL LATIFIndependent · IND3890.3%
- 6JATINDRA NATH ROYIndependent · IND1560.1%
Since 1987
Derived- Winner then
- CPM
- Winner now
- CPM
- CPM–INC swing
- −7.8%
- CPM share
- 54.3% → 44.0%
- INC share
- 42.7% → 40.2%
- Turnout
- — → —