Constituency
59. Jalangi
Community mirrorWest Bengal Assembly Election, 1991
WB-JALANGI
CPM 56.3%won by 30.6%INC 25.7%
What changed here
DerivedCommunist Party of India (Marxist) held the seat; the winning margin widened from 12.1% to 30.6%.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 82.0% between them, down from 94.9% — the field split more ways.
- Safe seatCommunist Party of India (Marxist) won by more than 25 points — a stronghold, not a contest.
- Multi-cornered3 candidates cleared 5% — a genuinely multi-cornered fight.
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
1,22,823
Margin
37,638
30.64%
Candidates
8 contested · winner CPM- 1UNUS SARKARCommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM69,18456.3%
- 2RANJIT HALDARIndian National Congress · INC31,54625.7%
- 3NABA KUMAR SARKARBharatiya Janata Party · BJP16,93613.8%
- 4AHIA MONDALIndependent · IND1,6631.4%
- 5HOQUE FAZLULIndependent · IND1,2201.0%
- 6SUKUR ALIJanahitha Paksha · JP1,1160.9%
- 7ABDUL MOTINMUL · MUL7140.6%
- 8NARENDRA NATH BISWASAMB · AMB4440.4%
Since 1987
Derived- Winner then
- CPM
- Winner now
- CPM
- CPM–INC swing
- +18.6%
- CPM share
- 53.5% → 56.3%
- INC share
- 41.4% → 25.7%
- Turnout
- — → —