Constituency
152. Ballygunge
Community mirrorWest Bengal Assembly Election, 1991
WB-BALLYGUNGE
CPM 47.2%won by 3.8%INC 43.4%
What changed here
DerivedCommunist Party of India (Marxist) held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 6.0% to 3.8%.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 5.2% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 90.5% between them, down from 98.6% — 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
1,14,415
Margin
4,348
3.80%
Candidates
7 contested · winner CPM- 1SACHIN SENCommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM53,95947.2%
- 2SUSOBHAN BASUIndian National Congress · INC49,61143.4%
- 3JAHARLAL CHATTERJEEBharatiya Janata Party · BJP9,6368.4%
- 4DURGA CHATTERJEEWPI · WPI5140.4%
- 5BHUSAN MANDALIndependent · IND3180.3%
- 6RANJIT KUMAR DEYIndependent · IND2300.2%
- 7ARABINDA SENIndependent · IND1470.1%
Since 1987
Derived- Winner then
- CPM
- Winner now
- CPM
- CPM–INC swing
- −2.2%
- CPM share
- 52.3% → 47.2%
- INC share
- 46.3% → 43.4%
- Turnout
- — → —