Constituency
99. Hingalganj
Community mirrorWest Bengal Assembly Election, 1991
WB-HINGALGANJ
CPM 52.2%won by 16.9%INC 35.3%
What changed here
DerivedCommunist Party of India (Marxist) held the seat; the winning margin widened from 13.0% to 16.9%.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 87.5% between them, down from 95.2% — the field split more ways.
- 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
1,03,390
Margin
17,427
16.86%
Candidates
5 contested · winner CPM- 1GAYEN NRIPENCommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM53,95352.2%
- 2SANKAR ROYIndian National Congress · INC36,52635.3%
- 3HAZARI LAL SARKARBharatiya Janata Party · BJP9,0028.7%
- 4RANJIT GAYENIndependent · IND3,5583.4%
- 5AMAL KRISHNA MISTRIJanahitha Paksha · JP3510.3%
Since 1987
Derived- Winner then
- CPM
- Winner now
- CPM
- CPM–INC swing
- +3.8%
- CPM share
- 54.1% → 52.2%
- INC share
- 41.1% → 35.3%
- Turnout
- — → —