Constituency
89. Amdanga
Community mirrorWest Bengal Assembly Election, 1991
WB-AMDANGA
CPM 50.3%won by 12.3%INC 38.1%
What changed here
DerivedCommunist Party of India (Marxist) held the seat; the winning margin held roughly steady from 11.9% to 12.3%.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 3.1% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 88.4% between them, down from 94.9% — 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
1,15,223
Margin
14,124
12.26%
Candidates
5 contested · winner CPM- 1HASHIM ABDUL HALIMCommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM57,96850.3%
- 2IDRIS ALIIndian National Congress · INC43,84438.1%
- 3DIPAK SAHABharatiya Janata Party · BJP12,70811.0%
- 4J. P. ALAMEJanahitha Paksha · JP4940.4%
- 5MONDAL ABDUL GAFFERIndependent · IND2090.2%
Since 1987
Derived- Winner then
- CPM
- Winner now
- CPM
- CPM–INC swing
- +0.4%
- CPM share
- 53.4% → 50.3%
- INC share
- 41.5% → 38.1%
- Turnout
- — → —