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43. Ratua

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West Bengal Assembly Election, 1991

WB-RATUA

CPM 47.8%won by 4.6%INC 43.2%

What changed here

Derived

Communist Party of India (Marxist) held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 21.6% to 4.6%.

  • Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 91.0% of the vote between them, up from 78.8% — a tighter two-way contest.
  • 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
95,319
Margin
4,412
4.63%

Candidates

8 contested · winner CPM
  1. 1MAMTAZ BEGUMCommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM45,58647.8%
  2. 2BISWANATH GUHAIndian National Congress · INC41,17443.2%
  3. 3SHYAMAL RAYBharatiya Janata Party · BJP6,1716.5%
  4. 4BADIRUDDINMUL · MUL1,4791.6%
  5. 5SANTOSH MONDALBahujan Samaj Party · BSP5110.5%
  6. 6SRIDAM THOKDARAMB · AMB1890.2%
  7. 7ANWARIndependent · IND1260.1%
  8. 8HIMADRI GHOSHIndependent · IND830.1%

Since 1987

Derived
Winner then
CPM
Winner now
CPM
CPM–INC swing
−17.0%
CPM share
50.2% → 47.8%
INC share
28.6% → 43.2%
Turnout
— → —
42. Harishchandrapur44. Araidanga
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