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Constituency

80. Ranaghat East

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West Bengal Assembly Election, 1991

WB-RANAGHAT-EAST

CPM 46.0%won by 8.8%INC 37.2%

What changed here

Derived

Communist 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
not in source
Turnout
not in source
Valid votes
1,28,116
Margin
11,249
8.78%

Since 1987

Derived
Winner then
CPM
Winner now
CPM
CPMINC swing
−5.1%
CPM share
55.4% 46.0%
INC share
41.6% 37.2%
Turnout