Constituency
95. Basirhat
Community mirrorWest Bengal Assembly Election, 1991
WB-BASIRHAT
CPM 40.0%won by 1.9%INC 38.1%
What changed here
DerivedCommunist Party of India (Marxist) held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 6.8% to 1.9%.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 7.3% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 78.1% between them, down from 87.8% — 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
1,23,039
Margin
2,283
1.86%
Candidates
7 contested · winner CPM- 1NARAYAN MUKHEREECommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM49,21740.0%
- 2DILIP MAJUMDARIndian National Congress · INC46,93438.1%
- 3SANT SARKERBharatiya Janata Party · BJP24,47519.9%
- 4ABDULLA AL MASUMJIndependent · IND9030.7%
- 5MIRA CHARKABORTYJanahitha Paksha · JP6220.5%
- 6KARTCK SARKARIndependent · IND5240.4%
- 7ABDUR RAZAKMUL · MUL3640.3%
Since 1987
Derived- Winner then
- CPM
- Winner now
- CPM
- CPM–INC swing
- −5.0%
- CPM share
- 47.3% → 40.0%
- INC share
- 40.5% → 38.1%
- Turnout
- — → —