Constituency
42. Harishchandrapur
Community mirrorWest Bengal Assembly Election, 1991
WB-HARISHCHANDRAPUR
FBL 45.3%won by 11.5%INC 33.9%
What changed here
DerivedFBL held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 16.7% to 11.5%.
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 79.2% of the vote between them, up from 69.4% — a tighter two-way contest.
- Multi-cornered4 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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Turnout
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Valid votes
1,02,076
Margin
11,720
11.48%
Candidates
5 contested · winner FBL- 1BIRENDRA KUMAR MOITRAFBL · FBL46,27345.3%
- 2ABDUL WAHEDIndian National Congress · INC34,55333.9%
- 3SITAL CHAKRABORTYBharatiya Janata Party · BJP13,67213.4%
- 4ELIAS RAZIWPI · WPI6,2896.2%
- 5ARABINDA SINGHAIndependent · IND1,2891.3%
Since 1987
Derived- Winner then
- FBL
- Winner now
- FBL
- FBL–INC swing
- −5.3%
- FBL share
- 43.1% → 45.3%
- INC share
- 26.3% → 33.9%
- Turnout
- — → —