Constituency
146. Chowringhee
Community mirrorWest Bengal Assembly Election, 1991
WB-CHOWRINGHEE
INC 55.7%won by 24.1%CPM 31.6%
What changed here
DerivedIndian National Congress held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 27.7% to 24.1%.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 6.5% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 87.4% between them, down from 96.8% — 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
69,717
Margin
16,833
24.14%
Candidates
9 contested · winner INC- 1SIDDHARTHA SHANKER RAYIndian National Congress · INC38,86655.7%
- 2ASHOK MITRACommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM22,03331.6%
- 3SABYASACHI BAGCHIBharatiya Janata Party · BJP8,33912.0%
- 4SAKKAL DEB SHARMAIndependent · IND1830.3%
- 5RAJRANCHHOR CHAND BHANDARIIndependent · IND830.1%
- 6M. E. CHANDIndependent · IND810.1%
- 7VIJAY KUMAR GAURIndependent · IND540.1%
- 8ARUN BISWASIndependent · IND480.1%
- 9SURENDRA NATH MITRAIndependent · IND300.0%
Since 1987
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- INC
- INC–CPM swing
- −3.5%
- INC share
- 62.2% → 55.7%
- CPM share
- 34.6% → 31.6%
- Turnout
- — → —