EElectionLens
Constituency

82. Chakdaha

Community mirror

West Bengal Assembly Election, 1991

WB-CHAKDAHA

CPM 51.7%won by 16.0%INC 35.7%

What changed here

Derived

Communist Party of India (Marxist) held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 16.8% to 16.0%.

  • Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 5.2% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
  • Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 87.4% between them, down from 97.1% — 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
1,49,644
Margin
23,883
15.96%

Since 1987

Derived
Winner then
CPM
Winner now
CPM
CPMINC swing
−0.8%
CPM share
56.9% 51.7%
INC share
40.1% 35.7%
Turnout