Constituency
81. Ranaghat West
Community mirrorWest Bengal Assembly Election, 1991
WB-RANAGHAT-WEST
CPM 42.6%won by 2.5%INC 40.2%
What changed here
DerivedCommunist Party of India (Marxist) held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 8.8% to 2.5%.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 11.0% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 82.8% between them, down from 98.5% — 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
1,24,714
Margin
3,100
2.49%
Candidates
6 contested · winner CPM- 1SUBHAAS BASUCommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM53,18242.6%
- 2NARESH CHANDRA CHAKIIndian National Congress · INC50,08240.2%
- 3CHATTOPADHAYAY DILIPBharatiya Janata Party · BJP19,12015.3%
- 4CHATTERJEE PRADEEPIndependent · IND1,3761.1%
- 5ANIL CHANDRA DEBNATHBahujan Samaj Party · BSP5770.5%
- 6BIPAD BHANJAN ROYIndependent · IND3770.3%
Since 1987
Derived- Winner then
- CPM
- Winner now
- CPM
- CPM–INC swing
- −6.4%
- CPM share
- 53.7% → 42.6%
- INC share
- 44.8% → 40.2%
- Turnout
- — → —