Constituency
86. Gaighata
Community mirrorWest Bengal Assembly Election, 1991
WB-GAIGHATA
INC 43.4%won by 0.4%CPM 43.0%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Communist Party of India (Marxist) (CPM) lost it to Indian National Congress (INC), which now leads by 0.4%.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 86.4% between them, down from 98.2% — the field split more ways.
- Knife-edgeDecided by 569 votes (0.42%) — among the closest results anywhere.
- Multi-cornered3 candidates cleared 5% — a genuinely multi-cornered fight.
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
1,36,267
Margin
569
0.42%
Candidates
9 contested · winner INC- 1PABIR BANERJEEIndian National Congress · INC59,18343.4%
- 2KANTI BISWASCommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM58,61443.0%
- 3SUDIHR BISWASBharatiya Janata Party · BJP12,9799.5%
- 4MAHINDRA BISWASBahujan Samaj Party · BSP2,6021.9%
- 5KESHAB LAL BISWASIPF · IPF1,7501.3%
- 6ASHOKE DASIndependent · IND4080.3%
- 7BIKASH BISWASIndependent · IND3970.3%
- 8PROMODE CHANDRA DEBNATHIndependent · IND1940.1%
- 9BISWA NIBAS ACHARYAIndependent · IND1400.1%
Since 1987
Derived- Winner then
- CPM
- Winner now
- INCflipped
- INC–CPM swing
- +8.9%
- INC share
- 44.9% → 43.4%
- CPM share
- 53.4% → 43.0%
- Turnout
- — → —