Constituency
39. Habibpur
Community mirrorWest Bengal Assembly Election, 1991
WB-HABIBPUR
CPM 44.3%won by 14.1%INC 30.3%
What changed here
DerivedCommunist Party of India (Marxist) held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 16.0% to 14.1%.
- 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 74.6% between them, down from 92.3% — 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
96,497
Margin
13,571
14.06%
Candidates
6 contested · winner CPM- 1SARKAR MURMUCommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM42,78144.3%
- 2GOPINATH MURMUIndian National Congress · INC29,21030.3%
- 3JETHA HEMROMBharatiya Janata Party · BJP22,61223.4%
- 4SRINATH MURMUBahujan Samaj Party · BSP1,1211.2%
- 5SHIBANANDA SORENIndependent · IND4860.5%
- 6HOPNA BASRAIndependent · IND2870.3%
Since 1987
Derived- Winner then
- CPM
- Winner now
- CPM
- CPM–INC swing
- −1.9%
- CPM share
- 54.1% → 44.3%
- INC share
- 38.1% → 30.3%
- Turnout
- — → —