Constituency
188. Balagarh
Community mirrorWest Bengal Assembly Election, 1991
WB-BALAGARH
CPM 50.2%won by 15.4%INC 34.8%
What changed here
DerivedCommunist Party of India (Marxist) held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 17.9% to 15.4%.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 8.4% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 85.0% between them, down from 99.4% — 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
1,10,103
Margin
16,979
15.42%
Candidates
5 contested · winner CPMSince 1987
Derived- Winner then
- CPM
- Winner now
- CPM
- CPM–INC swing
- −2.5%
- CPM share
- 58.6% → 50.2%
- INC share
- 40.8% → 34.8%
- Turnout
- — → —