Constituency
115. Maheshtala
Community mirrorWest Bengal Assembly Election, 1991
WB-MAHESHTALA
CPM 50.1%won by 18.8%INC 31.2%
What changed here
DerivedCommunist Party of India (Marxist) held the seat; the winning margin widened from 12.8% to 18.8%.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 5.4% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 81.3% between them, down from 98.1% — 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
1,05,148
Margin
19,819
18.85%
Candidates
9 contested · winner CPM- 1ABDUL BASARCommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM52,63650.1%
- 2MALAY CHOWDHURYIndian National Congress · INC32,81731.2%
- 3SOMEN DASBharatiya Janata Party · BJP16,23015.4%
- 4NURODDIN MONDALMUL · MUL1,8581.8%
- 5T APAS BANERJEEJanahitha Paksha · JP5940.6%
- 6SHAIKH ABDULLAHIndependent · IND5350.5%
- 7MD. ISMAIL KHANIndependent · IND2260.2%
- 8KAHAR FULVA DEVIDDP · DDP1410.1%
- 9PULAKK MUTSUDDIIndependent · IND1110.1%
Since 1987
Derived- Winner then
- CPM
- Winner now
- CPM
- CPM–INC swing
- +6.1%
- CPM share
- 55.4% → 50.1%
- INC share
- 42.7% → 31.2%
- Turnout
- — → —