Constituency
136. Kamarhati
Community mirrorWest Bengal Assembly Election, 1991
WB-KAMARHATI
CPM 51.7%won by 16.9%INC 34.8%
What changed here
DerivedCommunist Party of India (Marxist) held the seat; the winning margin widened from 12.5% to 16.9%.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 4.5% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 86.5% between them, down from 100.0% — 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
1,09,421
Margin
18,502
16.91%
Candidates
5 contested · winner CPM- 1SANTI GHATAKCommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM56,56551.7%
- 2SALIL BISWASIndian National Congress · INC38,06334.8%
- 3SHYAM BALLABH HEDABharatiya Janata Party · BJP13,92512.7%
- 4MD. YOUSUF ZIABahujan Samaj Party · BSP6430.6%
- 5KALIM AHMADIndependent · IND2250.2%
Since 1987
Derived- Winner then
- CPM
- Winner now
- CPM
- CPM–INC swing
- +4.4%
- CPM share
- 56.2% → 51.7%
- INC share
- 43.8% → 34.8%
- Turnout
- — → —