Constituency
211. Contai South
Community mirrorWest Bengal Assembly Election, 1991
WB-CONTAI-SOUTH
INC 46.4%won by 5.8%CPI 40.6%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Communist Party of India (CPI) lost it to Indian National Congress (INC), which now leads by 5.8%.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 87.0% between them, down from 92.4% — 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
93,829
Margin
5,469
5.83%
Candidates
5 contested · winner INC- 1SAILAJA KUMAR DASIndian National Congress · INC43,55646.4%
- 2SUKHENDU MAITYCommunist Party of India · CPI38,08740.6%
- 3MRINMOY KUMAR RATHBharatiya Janata Party · BJP10,91611.6%
- 4PURNENDU SEKHAR MAITYJanahitha Paksha · JP9691.0%
- 5KALPANA DASIndependent · IND3010.3%
Since 1987
Derived- Winner then
- CPI
- Winner now
- INCflipped
- INC–CPI swing
- +10.6%
- INC share
- 43.9% → 46.4%
- CPI share
- 48.6% → 40.6%
- Turnout
- — → —