Constituency
38. Balurghat
Community mirrorWest Bengal Assembly Election, 1991
WB-BALURGHAT
RSP 44.6%won by 7.4%INC 37.2%
What changed here
DerivedRashtriya Sarvajan Party held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 12.0% to 7.4%.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 10.8% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 81.8% between them, down from 98.8% — 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
1,04,477
Margin
7,713
7.38%
Candidates
6 contested · winner RSP- 1BISWANATH CHOWDHURYRashtriya Sarvajan Party · RSP46,59744.6%
- 2KHAN BIPLABIndian National Congress · INC38,88437.2%
- 3MAHABIR PROSAD SARAOGIBharatiya Janata Party · BJP17,80617.0%
- 4PROBADH TALPATRAIndependent · IND5100.5%
- 5NARAYAN CHANDRA BARMANIndependent · IND3700.4%
- 6JAHARLAL MAHATAAMB · AMB3100.3%
Since 1987
Derived- Winner then
- RSP
- Winner now
- RSP
- RSP–INC swing
- −4.6%
- RSP share
- 55.4% → 44.6%
- INC share
- 43.4% → 37.2%
- Turnout
- — → —