Constituency
98. Sandeshkhali
Community mirrorWest Bengal Assembly Election, 1991
WB-SANDESHKHALI
CPM 55.1%won by 28.0%INC 27.0%
What changed here
DerivedCommunist Party of India (Marxist) held the seat; the winning margin widened from 16.9% to 28.0%.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 82.1% between them, down from 97.8% — the field split more ways.
- Safe seatCommunist Party of India (Marxist) won by more than 25 points — a stronghold, not a contest.
- 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
1,05,373
Margin
29,550
28.04%
Candidates
6 contested · winner CPM- 1DHIREN MONDALCommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM58,03155.1%
- 2KRISHNA PADA PATRAIndian National Congress · INC28,48127.0%
- 3KESHAB KAYALBharatiya Janata Party · BJP17,00016.1%
- 4SATISH CHANDRA MALIIndependent · IND1,2121.2%
- 5DULAL SARKARAMB · AMB5340.5%
- 6SIPRA HALDARIndependent · IND1150.1%
Since 1987
Derived- Winner then
- CPM
- Winner now
- CPM
- CPM–INC swing
- +11.1%
- CPM share
- 57.4% → 55.1%
- INC share
- 40.4% → 27.0%
- Turnout
- — → —