Constituency
73. Chapra
Community mirrorWest Bengal Assembly Election, 1991
WB-CHAPRA
CPM 48.9%won by 25.0%INC 23.9%
What changed here
DerivedCommunist Party of India (Marxist) held the seat; the winning margin widened from 16.7% to 25.0%.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 7.6% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 72.8% between them, down from 96.2% — 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
1,10,754
Margin
27,696
25.01%
Candidates
8 contested · winner CPM- 1MIR QUASEM MONDALCommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM54,16248.9%
- 2ARUN KUMAR GHOSHIndian National Congress · INC26,46623.9%
- 3SACHIN GHOSHBharatiya Janata Party · BJP16,03814.5%
- 4KAZI SAFFIUDDIN AHMEDIndependent · IND10,2409.2%
- 5BISWAJIT CHATTERJEEIPF · IPF2,3152.1%
- 6KRISHNA PROSAD MAZUMDERBahujan Samaj Party · BSP8200.7%
- 7INRAHIM SHAIKHIndependent · IND5140.5%
- 8SAHAJAHAN MONDALAMB · AMB1990.2%
Since 1987
Derived- Winner then
- CPM
- Winner now
- CPM
- CPM–INC swing
- +8.3%
- CPM share
- 56.5% → 48.9%
- INC share
- 39.7% → 23.9%
- Turnout
- — → —