Constituency
158. Burtola
Community mirrorWest Bengal Assembly Election, 1991
WB-BURTOLA
INC 56.6%won by 28.9%RSP 27.7%
What changed here
DerivedIndian National Congress held the seat; the winning margin widened from 21.6% to 28.9%.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 84.4% between them, down from 97.1% — the field split more ways.
- Safe seatIndian National Congress won by more than 25 points — a stronghold, not a contest.
- Multi-cornered3 candidates cleared 5% — a genuinely multi-cornered fight.
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
71,098
Margin
20,573
28.94%
Candidates
9 contested · winner INC- 1SADHAN PANDEIndian National Congress · INC40,27456.6%
- 2PARIMAL ROUTHRashtriya Sarvajan Party · RSP19,70127.7%
- 3PRAMOD SAMANTABharatiya Janata Party · BJP9,18312.9%
- 4PRADIP KUMAR SAHAJanahitha Paksha · JP1,0531.5%
- 5PARIMAL DASIndependent · IND2970.4%
- 6SANAT SINGHAIndependent · IND2340.3%
- 7SADHAN PATRAIndependent · IND1540.2%
- 8INDRA PRASAD JAISWALIndependent · IND1120.2%
- 9SANAT RAKSHITIndependent · IND900.1%
Since 1987
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- INC
- INC–RSP swing
- +7.4%
- INC share
- 59.3% → 56.6%
- RSP share
- 37.8% → 27.7%
- Turnout
- — → —