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58. Murshidabad

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West Bengal Assembly Election, 1991

WB-MURSHIDABAD

FBL 48.7%won by 16.9%INC 31.8%

What changed here

Derived

The seat changed hands: Indian National Congress (INC) lost it to FBL (FBL), which now leads by 16.9%.

  • FBL vote shareFBL went from 23.1% to 48.7% of the vote here (+25.6%).
  • Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 80.5% of the vote between them, up from 73.4% — a tighter two-way contest.

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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Valid votes
1,19,915
Margin
20,272
16.91%

Candidates

12 contested · winner FBL
  1. 1CHHAYA GHOSHFBL · FBL58,42448.7%
  2. 2ASAK ALIIndian National Congress · INC38,15231.8%
  3. 3JYOTSNA KUMAR DUTTABharatiya Janata Party · BJP11,96710.0%
  4. 4MD. MINARUDDIN SEIKHIndependent · IND2,6442.2%
  5. 5HAZI MOHIUDDINCommunist Party of India (Marxist-Leninist) (Liberation) · CPIML2,5212.1%
  6. 6ATAHAR RAHAMANBahujan Samaj Party · BSP1,6411.4%
  7. 7CHODHURY ABDUS SAMADIndependent · IND1,5541.3%
  8. 8BIKAS CHAKRABARTYIndependent · IND1,0180.8%
  9. 9MD. ABBAS ALIMUL · MUL6210.5%
  10. 10MONDAL ABDUL SAMADJanahitha Paksha · JP5780.5%
  11. 11MONDAL MAJED HOSSAINIndependent · IND4390.4%
  12. 12GAISUDDIN SEIKHIndependent · IND3560.3%

Since 1987

Derived
Winner then
INC
Winner now
FBLflipped
FBL–INC swing
+32.2%
FBL share
23.1% → 48.7%
INC share
38.4% → 31.8%
Turnout
— → —
57. Nabagram59. Jalangi
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