Constituency
208. Bhagabanpur
Community mirrorWest Bengal Assembly Election, 1991
WB-BHAGABANPUR
CPM 49.9%won by 9.2%INC 40.7%
What changed here
DerivedCommunist Party of India (Marxist) held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 9.8% to 9.2%.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 3.7% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 90.6% between them, down from 97.3% — 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
90,582
Margin
8,371
9.24%
Candidates
5 contested · winner CPM- 1PRASANTA PRADHANCommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM45,20249.9%
- 2ASOKTARU PANDAIndian National Congress · INC36,83140.7%
- 3BIPIN MUNIYANBharatiya Janata Party · BJP6,7757.5%
- 4NETRA DAS MAHAPATRAIndependent · IND1,6191.8%
- 5ARDHENDU MAITYIndependent · IND1550.2%
Since 1987
Derived- Winner then
- CPM
- Winner now
- CPM
- CPM–INC swing
- −0.6%
- CPM share
- 53.6% → 49.9%
- INC share
- 43.7% → 40.7%
- Turnout
- — → —