Constituency
189. Pandua
Community mirrorWest Bengal Assembly Election, 1991
WB-PANDUA
CPM 58.7%won by 29.6%INC 29.2%
What changed here
DerivedCommunist Party of India (Marxist) held the seat; the winning margin widened from 20.4% to 29.6%.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 87.9% between them, down from 99.4% — 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
1,22,383
Margin
36,186
29.57%
Candidates
6 contested · winner CPM- 1DEBNARAYAN CHAKRABORTYCommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM71,87958.7%
- 2HRISHIKESH GHOSHIndian National Congress · INC35,69329.2%
- 3BIDURPRA MANIKBharatiya Janata Party · BJP13,05810.7%
- 4NIRAI HEMBRAMIndependent · IND7000.6%
- 5MILAN MONDALBahujan Samaj Party · BSP6020.5%
- 6KBUDDHA RUIDASIndependent · IND4510.4%
Since 1987
Derived- Winner then
- CPM
- Winner now
- CPM
- CPM–INC swing
- +9.1%
- CPM share
- 59.9% → 58.7%
- INC share
- 39.5% → 29.2%
- Turnout
- — → —