Constituency
206. Nandigram
Community mirrorWest Bengal Assembly Election, 1991
WB-NANDIGRAM
CPI 47.8%won by 3.5%INC 44.3%
What changed here
DerivedCommunist Party of India held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 6.5% to 3.5%.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 4.8% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 92.2% between them, down from 98.8% — 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
1,04,333
Margin
3,670
3.52%
Candidates
5 contested · winner CPI- 1SAKTI BALCommunist Party of India · CPI49,92347.8%
- 2DEBI SANKAR PANDAIndian National Congress · INC46,25344.3%
- 3SUNIL MAITYIndependent · IND4,6554.5%
- 4SANTOSH KUMAR DASBharatiya Janata Party · BJP2,8302.7%
- 5BHANANI PRASAD DASIndependent · IND6720.6%
Since 1987
Derived- Winner then
- CPI
- Winner now
- CPI
- CPI–INC swing
- −2.9%
- CPI share
- 52.6% → 47.8%
- INC share
- 46.2% → 44.3%
- Turnout
- — → —