Constituency
37. Kumarganj
Community mirrorWest Bengal Assembly Election, 1991
WB-KUMARGANJ
CPM 45.5%won by 13.9%INC 31.6%
What changed here
DerivedCommunist Party of India (Marxist) held the seat; the winning margin widened from 9.3% to 13.9%.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 6.5% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 77.1% between them, down from 94.7% — 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
1,18,665
Margin
16,445
13.86%
Candidates
9 contested · winner CPM- 1DWIJENDRAS NATH OROYCommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM53,95745.5%
- 2PROBOH KUMAR SINGH ROYIndian National Congress · INC37,51231.6%
- 3ANIL KUMAR MISRABharatiya Janata Party · BJP25,29421.3%
- 4DAS BISWARANJANIndependent · IND8410.7%
- 5MANGAL HASDAIndependent · IND5180.4%
- 6GHOSH SARBESWARHMS · HMS3260.3%
- 7ANITA BISWASIndependent · IND930.1%
- 8AFTABUDDIN MONDALIndependent · IND800.1%
- 9SATENDRA NATH ROYIndependent · IND440.0%
Since 1987
Derived- Winner then
- CPM
- Winner now
- CPM
- CPM–INC swing
- +4.5%
- CPM share
- 52.0% → 45.5%
- INC share
- 42.7% → 31.6%
- Turnout
- — → —