Constituency
116. Budge Budge
Community mirrorWest Bengal Assembly Election, 1991
WB-BUDGE-BUDGE
CPM 47.2%won by 4.9%INC 42.3%
What changed here
DerivedCommunist Party of India (Marxist) held the seat; the winning margin widened from 2.6% to 4.9%.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 89.4% between them, down from 95.1% — 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
1,04,950
Margin
5,129
4.89%
Candidates
7 contested · winner CPM- 1DIPAK MUKHERJEECommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM49,48747.2%
- 2ASHOKE DEBIndian National Congress · INC44,35842.3%
- 3ASTU BASU SANTRABharatiya Janata Party · BJP10,0349.6%
- 4ABDUL KHALAQUE MOLLAIndependent · IND4220.4%
- 5ARUP HALDARIndependent · IND3370.3%
- 6SUBIR BHATTACHARJEEIndependent · IND2250.2%
- 7AMAR MAJUMDARIndependent · IND870.1%
Since 1987
Derived- Winner then
- CPM
- Winner now
- CPM
- CPM–INC swing
- +2.3%
- CPM share
- 48.9% → 47.2%
- INC share
- 46.3% → 42.3%
- Turnout
- — → —