Constituency
88. Ashokenagar
Community mirrorWest Bengal Assembly Election, 1991
WB-ASHOKENAGAR
CPM 43.3%won by 4.0%INC 39.3%
What changed here
DerivedCommunist Party of India (Marxist) held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 9.1% to 4.0%.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 9.7% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 82.6% between them, down from 96.8% — 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
1,16,982
Margin
4,665
3.99%
Candidates
7 contested · winner CPM- 1NANI KARCommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM50,62943.3%
- 2KESHAB BHATTACHARJEEIndian National Congress · INC45,96439.3%
- 3BASUDEB CHANDABharatiya Janata Party · BJP16,70314.3%
- 4BONOY SOMBahujan Samaj Party · BSP2,1911.9%
- 5KSHUDIRAM MONDALIndependent · IND7760.7%
- 6GOPAL BISWASIndependent · IND5460.5%
- 7HIRANMOY MUKHERJEEIndependent · IND1730.1%
Since 1987
Derived- Winner then
- CPM
- Winner now
- CPM
- CPM–INC swing
- −5.1%
- CPM share
- 53.0% → 43.3%
- INC share
- 43.8% → 39.3%
- Turnout
- — → —