Constituency
70. Palashipara
Community mirrorWest Bengal Assembly Election, 1991
WB-PALASHIPARA
CPM 44.2%won by 9.3%INC 34.9%
What changed here
DerivedCommunist Party of India (Marxist) held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 15.5% to 9.3%.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 7.3% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 79.1% between them, down from 87.5% — 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
1,17,385
Margin
10,904
9.29%
Candidates
8 contested · winner CPM- 1KAMALENDJU SANYAL (SASTHI)Communist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM51,88044.2%
- 2KARTIC CHANDRA BISWASIndian National Congress · INC40,97634.9%
- 3SMAR BISWASBharatiya Janata Party · BJP16,87214.4%
- 4SHAIKH KHODA BOXIndependent · IND5,5164.7%
- 5AMALESH DAS (LALU)IPF · IPF9750.8%
- 6ARABINDA BISWASBahujan Samaj Party · BSP5590.5%
- 7NRISINGHA MANDALIndependent · IND4620.4%
- 8BRAHAMA KARUNAMAYIndependent · IND1450.1%
Since 1987
Derived- Winner then
- CPM
- Winner now
- CPM
- CPM–INC swing
- −6.2%
- CPM share
- 51.5% → 44.2%
- INC share
- 36.0% → 34.9%
- Turnout
- — → —