Constituency
165. Shibpur
Community mirrorWest Bengal Assembly Election, 1991
WB-SHIBPUR
INC 45.7%won by 2.5%FBL 43.3%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: FBL (FBL) lost it to Indian National Congress (INC), which now leads by 2.5%.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 89.0% between them, down from 97.9% — 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
1,66,781
Margin
4,108
2.46%
Candidates
8 contested · winner INC- 1JATU LAHIRIIndian National Congress · INC76,24645.7%
- 2SATYENDRA NATH GHOSEFBL · FBL72,13843.3%
- 3MANI BHUSAN CHAKRABORTYBharatiya Janata Party · BJP16,5169.9%
- 4SUBRATA PAULIndependent · IND4900.3%
- 5MUKTI KUMAR SIDHANTAWPI · WPI4490.3%
- 6BIMAL SARKHELIndependent · IND4440.3%
- 7RAJ DEO CHOUDHURYIndependent · IND2640.2%
- 8ANATH BANDHU BHOWMICKIndependent · IND2340.1%
Since 1987
Derived- Winner then
- FBL
- Winner now
- INCflipped
- INC–FBL swing
- +7.6%
- INC share
- 46.4% → 45.7%
- FBL share
- 51.5% → 43.3%
- Turnout
- — → —