Constituency
50. Farakka
Community mirrorWest Bengal Assembly Election, 1991
WB-FARAKKA
CPM 38.6%won by 6.1%INC 32.4%
What changed here
DerivedCommunist Party of India (Marxist) held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 11.3% to 6.1%.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 5.3% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 71.0% between them, down from 76.4% — 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
95,787
Margin
5,880
6.14%
Candidates
8 contested · winner CPM- 1ABUL HASNAT KHANCommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM36,93438.6%
- 2MAINUL HAQUEIndian National Congress · INC31,05432.4%
- 3SASTI CHARAN GHOSHBharatiya Janata Party · BJP22,77123.8%
- 4ZERAT ALIIndependent · IND2,3742.5%
- 5YASIN ALIIndependent · IND7960.8%
- 6KHAIRULJanahitha Paksha · JP7490.8%
- 7AZIZUR RAHMANMUL · MUL6120.6%
- 8SATRUGHAN RABIDASBahujan Samaj Party · BSP4970.5%
Since 1987
Derived- Winner then
- CPM
- Winner now
- CPM
- CPM–INC swing
- −5.2%
- CPM share
- 43.8% → 38.6%
- INC share
- 32.5% → 32.4%
- Turnout
- — → —