Constituency
69. Karimpur
Community mirrorWest Bengal Assembly Election, 1991
WB-KARIMPUR
CPM 47.6%won by 17.9%INC 29.7%
What changed here
DerivedCommunist Party of India (Marxist) held the seat; the winning margin widened from 10.7% to 17.9%.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 7.4% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 77.4% between them, down from 99.4% — 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
1,12,008
Margin
20,033
17.89%
Candidates
6 contested · winner CPM- 1CHITTA RANJAN BISWASCommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM53,34947.6%
- 2CHIRA RANJAN MANDALIndian National Congress · INC33,31629.7%
- 3KARUAN KUMAR SAHABharatiya Janata Party · BJP22,89220.4%
- 4ABDUR RASHID BISWASJanahitha Paksha · JP1,3721.2%
- 5DHANAPATI MANDALIndependent · IND5810.5%
- 6RAKEBUDDIN MANDALIndependent · IND4980.4%
Since 1987
Derived- Winner then
- CPM
- Winner now
- CPM
- CPM–INC swing
- +7.2%
- CPM share
- 55.0% → 47.6%
- INC share
- 44.4% → 29.7%
- Turnout
- — → —