Constituency
128. Bijpur
Community mirrorWest Bengal Assembly Election, 1991
WB-BIJPUR
CPM 52.6%won by 14.5%INC 38.0%
What changed here
DerivedCommunist Party of India (Marxist) held the seat; the winning margin widened from 2.0% to 14.5%.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 90.6% between them, down from 98.8% — 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
1,03,576
Margin
15,066
14.55%
Candidates
8 contested · winner CPM- 1JAGADISH CHANDRA DASCommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM54,44852.6%
- 2MIMALANDA DATTAIndian National Congress · INC39,38238.0%
- 3JAGADISHWAR SINGHBharatiya Janata Party · BJP7,9007.6%
- 4ADITYA SARKARBahujan Samaj Party · BSP6010.6%
- 5AMBIKA PRASADJanahitha Paksha · JP4300.4%
- 6SHYAMAL DUTTAIndependent · IND3000.3%
- 7MISHRI SHARMAIndependent · IND2770.3%
- 8ASHIS AICH ROYIndependent · IND2380.2%
Since 1987
Derived- Winner then
- CPM
- Winner now
- CPM
- CPM–INC swing
- +12.6%
- CPM share
- 50.4% → 52.6%
- INC share
- 48.4% → 38.0%
- Turnout
- — → —