Constituency
161. Bally
Community mirrorWest Bengal Assembly Election, 1991
WB-BALLY
CPM 50.5%won by 14.5%INC 36.0%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Indian National Congress (INC) lost it to Communist Party of India (Marxist) (CPM), which now leads by 14.5%.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 86.5% between them, down from 98.8% — the field split more ways.
- 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
94,509
Margin
13,720
14.52%
Candidates
10 contested · winner CPM- 1PATIT PABAN PATHAKCommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM47,71950.5%
- 2SUPRYO BASUIndian National Congress · INC33,99936.0%
- 3RAKHAL CH DASBharatiya Janata Party · BJP10,69611.3%
- 4KALYAN GOSWAMIIPF · IPF9771.0%
- 5BIHANI JAI KISHANIndependent · IND4460.5%
- 6MUKESH KANSALBahujan Samaj Party · BSP2740.3%
- 7PURUSATTAM SHARMAIndependent · IND1820.2%
- 8RAJA RAM MITRAIndependent · IND830.1%
- 9HARS SHAWKAR SUKLSIndependent · IND690.1%
- 10SUBHAS DEB ROYIndependent · IND640.1%
Since 1987
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- CPMflipped
- CPM–INC swing
- +16.5%
- CPM share
- 48.4% → 50.5%
- INC share
- 50.4% → 36.0%
- Turnout
- — → —