Constituency
49. Kaliachak
Community mirrorWest Bengal Assembly Election, 1991
WB-KALIACHAK
CPM 41.4%won by 1.5%INC 39.9%
What changed here
DerivedCommunist Party of India (Marxist) held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 13.8% to 1.5%.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 11.6% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 81.3% between them, down from 92.2% — 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
1,18,269
Margin
1,807
1.53%
Candidates
6 contested · winner CPM- 1DINESH JOARDARCommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM48,98941.4%
- 2AHMED SHAMSUDDINIndian National Congress · INC47,18239.9%
- 3GHANESHYAM MONDALBharatiya Janata Party · BJP20,47517.3%
- 4SURENDRA MONDALBahujan Samaj Party · BSP9210.8%
- 5ESHAMUDDIN SAIKHIndependent · IND4340.4%
- 6MD. ESTAQUEAHAMEDMUL · MUL2680.2%
Since 1987
Derived- Winner then
- CPM
- Winner now
- CPM
- CPM–INC swing
- −12.3%
- CPM share
- 53.0% → 41.4%
- INC share
- 39.2% → 39.9%
- Turnout
- — → —