Constituency
185. Tarakeswar
Community mirrorWest Bengal Assembly Election, 1991
WB-TARAKESWAR
IND 57.5%won by 21.6%INC 35.9%
What changed here
DerivedIndependent held the seat; the winning margin widened from 17.2% to 21.6%.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 93.4% between them, down from 98.6% — 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
1,04,338
Margin
22,556
21.62%
Candidates
4 contested · winner IND- 1SANTI CHATTERJEEIndependent · IND60,01857.5%
- 2BALAILAL SHETHIndian National Congress · INC37,46235.9%
- 3ASHIM KUMAR PAULBharatiya Janata Party · BJP6,5136.2%
- 4TAREKCHANDRA SAUAMB · AMB3450.3%
Since 1987
Derived- Winner then
- IND
- Winner now
- IND
- IND–INC swing
- +4.4%
- IND share
- 57.9% → 57.5%
- INC share
- 40.7% → 35.9%
- Turnout
- — → —