Constituency
78. Santipur
Community mirrorWest Bengal Assembly Election, 1991
WB-SANTIPUR
INC 43.9%won by 1.1%RCPI 42.8%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Independent (IND) lost it to Indian National Congress (INC), which now leads by 1.1%.
- New challengerRCPI (RCPI) finished second with 42.8% — it did not contest here in 1987.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 86.7% between them, down from 96.3% — 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
1,27,753
Margin
1,441
1.13%
Candidates
5 contested · winner INC- 1AJOY DEYIndian National Congress · INC56,10743.9%
- 2ASIM GHOSHRCPI · RCPI54,66642.8%
- 3CHITTARANJAN KARBharatiya Janata Party · BJP15,54212.2%
- 4KSHITISH CHANDRA MONDALBahujan Samaj Party · BSP9830.8%
- 5SACHINDER NATH BHATTACHARYAIndependent · IND4550.4%
Since 1987
Derived- Winner then
- IND
- Winner now
- INCflipped
- INC–RCPI swing
- −44.7%
- INC share
- 45.8% → 43.9%
- RCPI share
- 0.0% → 42.8%
- Turnout
- — → —