Constituency
135. Panihati
Community mirrorWest Bengal Assembly Election, 1991
WB-PANIHATI
CPM 41.8%won by 5.3%INC 36.5%
What changed here
DerivedCommunist 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
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Turnout
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Valid votes
1,31,568
Margin
6,948
5.28%
Candidates
6 contested · winner CPM- 1TANIA CHAKRABARTYCommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM54,93841.8%
- 2NIRMAL GHOSHIndian National Congress · INC47,99036.5%
- 3ANIMESH MAJUMDERIndependent · IND15,85712.1%
- 4KMAHADEB BASAKBharatiya Janata Party · BJP11,7508.9%
- 5MANMATHA MALAKARBahujan Samaj Party · BSP8470.6%
- 6SUKUMAR BISWASIndependent · IND1860.1%
Since 1987
Derived- Winner then
- CPM
- Winner now
- CPM
- CPM–INC swing
- +4.0%
- CPM share
- 47.4% → 41.8%
- INC share
- 46.1% → 36.5%
- Turnout
- — → —