Constituency
80. Ranaghat East
Community mirrorWest Bengal Assembly Election, 1991
WB-RANAGHAT-EAST
CPM 46.0%won by 8.8%INC 37.2%
What changed here
DerivedCommunist Party of India (Marxist) held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 13.9% to 8.8%.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 9.4% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 83.3% between them, down from 97.0% — 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
1,28,116
Margin
11,249
8.78%
Candidates
7 contested · winner CPM- 1BINAY KRISHNA BISWASCommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM58,96346.0%
- 2AKHIL KUMAR KAJUMDARIndian National Congress · INC47,71437.2%
- 3MANINDRA BALABharatiya Janata Party · BJP18,49914.4%
- 4DASARATH BISWASBahujan Samaj Party · BSP1,4151.1%
- 5RADHA KANTA TOYJanahitha Paksha · JP9140.7%
- 6ARUN CHANDRA BARAIIndependent · IND5160.4%
- 7BIPAD BHANJAN BISWASIndependent · IND950.1%
Since 1987
Derived- Winner then
- CPM
- Winner now
- CPM
- CPM–INC swing
- −5.1%
- CPM share
- 55.4% → 46.0%
- INC share
- 41.6% → 37.2%
- Turnout
- — → —