Constituency
177. Jangipara
Community mirrorWest Bengal Assembly Election, 1991
WB-JANGIPARA
CPM 57.8%won by 28.1%INC 29.7%
What changed here
DerivedCommunist Party of India (Marxist) held the seat; the winning margin widened from 12.2% to 28.1%.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 87.5% between them, down from 99.1% — the field split more ways.
- Safe seatCommunist Party of India (Marxist) 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
1,08,587
Margin
30,465
28.06%
Candidates
4 contested · winner CPM- 1MANINDRA JANACommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM62,73357.8%
- 2GYATRI ROYIndian National Congress · INC32,26829.7%
- 3GOPI NATH DEYBharatiya Janata Party · BJP13,27212.2%
- 4TAPAN CHATTERJEEIndependent · IND3140.3%
Since 1987
Derived- Winner then
- CPM
- Winner now
- CPM
- CPM–INC swing
- +15.8%
- CPM share
- 55.6% → 57.8%
- INC share
- 43.4% → 29.7%
- Turnout
- — → —