Constituency
108. Jadavpur
Community mirrorWest Bengal Assembly Election, 1991
WB-JADAVPUR
CPM 54.3%won by 23.4%INC 30.9%
What changed here
DerivedCommunist Party of India (Marxist) held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 30.9% to 23.4%.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 10.6% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 85.2% between them, down from 98.8% — 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
1,49,775
Margin
35,023
23.38%
Candidates
6 contested · winner CPM- 1BUDDHADEB BHATTACHARJEECommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM81,28554.3%
- 2JYOTI PRASNNA DAS THAKURIndian National Congress · INC46,26230.9%
- 3RANAJIT BISWASBharatiya Janata Party · BJP20,40913.6%
- 4MADHAB LAL MUKHERJEEIndependent · IND7670.5%
- 5SUNIL KUMAR ROY CHOWDHORYBahujan Samaj Party · BSP6150.4%
- 6SUNIL GUHAJanata Dal · JD4370.3%
Since 1987
Derived- Winner then
- CPM
- Winner now
- CPM
- CPM–INC swing
- −7.5%
- CPM share
- 64.8% → 54.3%
- INC share
- 33.9% → 30.9%
- Turnout
- — → —