Constituency
156. Sealdah
Community mirrorWest Bengal Assembly Election, 1991
WB-SEALDAH
INC 62.2%won by 36.0%CPI 26.3%
What changed here
DerivedIndian National Congress held the seat; the winning margin widened from 32.3% to 36.0%.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 3.5% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 88.5% between them, down from 99.1% — 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
45,794
Margin
16,464
35.95%
Candidates
7 contested · winner INC- 1SOMENDRA NATH MISRAIndian National Congress · INC28,48562.2%
- 2ILA MITRACommunist Party of India · CPI12,02126.3%
- 3GURUDAYAL SINGHBharatiya Janata Party · BJP4,65710.2%
- 4ILA DASIndependent · IND3670.8%
- 5ANJANA KARIndependent · IND1070.2%
- 6ANJALI SHOMEIndependent · IND840.2%
- 7SACHCHIDA NANDA GOSWAMIBharatiya Jana Sangh · BJS730.2%
Since 1987
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- INC
- INC–CPI swing
- +3.6%
- INC share
- 65.7% → 62.2%
- CPI share
- 33.4% → 26.3%
- Turnout
- — → —