Constituency
47. Manikchak
Community mirrorWest Bengal Assembly Election, 1991
WB-MANIKCHAK
CPM 47.7%won by 7.2%INC 40.5%
What changed here
DerivedCommunist Party of India (Marxist) held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 14.8% to 7.2%.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 8.3% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 88.2% between them, down from 97.1% — 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
82,718
Margin
5,938
7.18%
Candidates
7 contested · winner CPM- 1SUBODH CHAUDHURYCommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM39,44047.7%
- 2R AM PRABESH MONDALIndian National Congress · INC33,50240.5%
- 3DRONACHARYA SARKARBharatiya Janata Party · BJP8,26710.0%
- 4NURHOSSAINBahujan Samaj Party · BSP7120.9%
- 5MONDAL CHHEDANIndependent · IND4870.6%
- 6MOMIN ABEDMUL · MUL1980.2%
- 7SKTAFAZZULIndependent · IND1120.1%
Since 1987
Derived- Winner then
- CPM
- Winner now
- CPM
- CPM–INC swing
- −7.6%
- CPM share
- 55.9% → 47.7%
- INC share
- 41.2% → 40.5%
- Turnout
- — → —