Constituency
137. Baranagar
Community mirrorWest Bengal Assembly Election, 1991
WB-BARANAGAR
RSP 46.9%won by 8.1%INC 38.8%
What changed here
DerivedRashtriya Sarvajan Party held the seat; the winning margin widened from 5.9% to 8.1%.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 3.7% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 85.7% between them, down from 95.3% — the field split more ways.
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Electorate
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Turnout
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Valid votes
1,41,574
Margin
11,472
8.10%
Candidates
6 contested · winner RSP- 1MATISH ROYRashtriya Sarvajan Party · RSP66,39746.9%
- 2AJOY GHOSALIndian National Congress · INC54,92538.8%
- 3NIKHIL SARKARBharatiya Janata Party · BJP17,68812.5%
- 4PRABIR GUPTAJanahitha Paksha · JP1,1110.8%
- 5SADHAN CHAKRABORTYIndependent · IND8370.6%
- 6RABINDRA KUMAR BALBharatiya Jana Sangh · BJS6160.4%
Since 1987
Derived- Winner then
- RSP
- Winner now
- RSP
- RSP–INC swing
- +2.2%
- RSP share
- 50.6% → 46.9%
- INC share
- 44.7% → 38.8%
- Turnout
- — → —