Constituency
138. Dum Dum
Community mirrorWest Bengal Assembly Election, 1991
WB-DUM-DUM
CPM 49.2%won by 19.2%INC 30.0%
What changed here
DerivedCommunist 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
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Turnout
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Valid votes
1,41,539
Margin
27,172
19.20%
Candidates
5 contested · winner CPMSince 1987
Derived- Winner then
- CPM
- Winner now
- CPM
- CPM–INC swing
- −3.7%
- CPM share
- 61.2% → 49.2%
- INC share
- 38.3% → 30.0%
- Turnout
- — → —