Constituency
169. Sankrail
Community mirrorWest Bengal Assembly Election, 1991
WB-SANKRAIL
CPM 44.3%won by 3.4%INC 40.9%
What changed here
DerivedCommunist Party of India (Marxist) held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 8.5% to 3.4%.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 9.9% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 85.2% between them, down from 100.0% — 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
1,16,096
Margin
3,916
3.37%
Candidates
4 contested · winner CPM- 1HARAN HAZRACommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM51,41044.3%
- 2NITYANANDA BHUNIYAIndian National Congress · INC47,49440.9%
- 3UMAPADA MANDALBharatiya Janata Party · BJP16,11013.9%
- 4BISWANATH BAIDYAIndependent · IND1,0820.9%
Since 1987
Derived- Winner then
- CPM
- Winner now
- CPM
- CPM–INC swing
- −5.1%
- CPM share
- 54.2% → 44.3%
- INC share
- 45.8% → 40.9%
- Turnout
- — → —