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Constituency

135. Panihati

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West Bengal Assembly Election, 1991

WB-PANIHATI

CPM 41.8%won by 5.3%INC 36.5%

What changed here

Derived

Communist Party of India (Marxist) held the seat; the winning margin widened from 1.3% to 5.3%.

  • Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 5.7% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
  • Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 78.2% between them, down from 93.5% — the field split more ways.

Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.

Electorate
not in source
Turnout
not in source
Valid votes
1,31,568
Margin
6,948
5.28%

Since 1987

Derived
Winner then
CPM
Winner now
CPM
CPMINC swing
+4.0%
CPM share
47.4% 41.8%
INC share
46.1% 36.5%
Turnout