Election
Constituency

138. Dum Dum

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West Bengal Assembly Election, 1991

WB-DUM-DUM

CPM 49.2%won by 19.2%INC 30.0%

What changed here

Derived

Communist Party of India (Marxist) held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 22.9% to 19.2%.

  • Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 11.9% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
  • Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 79.3% between them, down from 99.5% — 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
1,41,539
Margin
27,172
19.20%

Since 1987

Derived
Winner then
CPM
Winner now
CPM
CPMINC swing
−3.7%
CPM share
61.2% 49.2%
INC share
38.3% 30.0%
Turnout