Constituency
179. Uttarpara
Community mirrorWest Bengal Assembly Election, 1991
WB-UTTARPARA
CPM 46.2%won by 3.8%INC 42.5%
What changed here
DerivedCommunist Party of India (Marxist) held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 6.9% to 3.8%.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 6.5% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 88.7% between them, down from 98.7% — 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
1,25,589
Margin
4,737
3.77%
Candidates
5 contested · winner CPM- 1SANTASIR CHATTERJEECommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM58,06646.2%
- 2JAGAT CHATTERJEEIndian National Congress · INC53,32942.5%
- 3KRISHNA BHATTACHARYYABharatiya Janata Party · BJP12,2079.7%
- 4AMAR KUMAR SENIndependent · IND1,6601.3%
- 5BABU RAM MAJHIDDP · DDP3270.3%
Since 1987
Derived- Winner then
- CPM
- Winner now
- CPM
- CPM–INC swing
- −3.1%
- CPM share
- 52.8% → 46.2%
- INC share
- 45.9% → 42.5%
- Turnout
- — → —