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Constituency

41. Kharba

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West Bengal Assembly Election, 1991

WB-KHARBA

CPM 44.0%won by 1.9%INC 42.1%

What changed here

Derived

Communist Party of India (Marxist) held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 6.7% to 1.9%.

  • Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 3.4% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
  • Multi-cornered3 candidates cleared 5% — a genuinely multi-cornered fight.

Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.

Electorate
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not in source
Turnout
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not in source
Valid votes
1,11,268
Margin
2,104
1.89%

Candidates

7 contested · winner CPM
  1. 1NAZMUL HAQUECommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM48,92844.0%
  2. 2MAHABUBUL HAQUEIndian National Congress · INC46,82442.1%
  3. 3ASHESH KRISHAN GOSWAMIBharatiya Janata Party · BJP12,36911.1%
  4. 4ABDUL SATTARMUL · MUL1,2451.1%
  5. 5DHARM CHAND JAINIndependent · IND7890.7%
  6. 6NAKUL RABIDASBahujan Samaj Party · BSP7050.6%
  7. 7ALI LIAKATWPI · WPI4080.4%

Since 1987

Derived
Winner then
CPM
Winner now
CPM
CPM–INC swing
−4.8%
CPM share
47.3% → 44.0%
INC share
40.6% → 42.1%
Turnout
— → —
40. Gajol42. Harishchandrapur
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