Constituency
46. Englishbazar
Community mirrorWest Bengal Assembly Election, 1991
WB-ENGLISHBAZAR
CPM 34.7%won by 2.2%INC 32.5%
What changed here
DerivedCommunist Party of India (Marxist) held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 13.2% to 2.2%.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 18.2% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 67.3% between them, down from 92.8% — 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
1,07,820
Margin
2,393
2.22%
Candidates
4 contested · winner CPM- 1PRABHAT ACHARYACommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM37,46234.7%
- 2PRADIP KARIndian National Congress · INC35,06932.5%
- 3TAPAN SIKDARBharatiya Janata Party · BJP35,05032.5%
- 4RAGHUPATI BHATTACHARYYAIndependent · IND2390.2%
Since 1987
Derived- Winner then
- CPM
- Winner now
- CPM
- CPM–INC swing
- −11.0%
- CPM share
- 53.0% → 34.7%
- INC share
- 39.8% → 32.5%
- Turnout
- — → —