Constituency
222. Salbani
Community mirrorWest Bengal Assembly Election, 1991
WB-SALBANI
CPM 54.5%won by 13.4%JP 41.1%
What changed here
DerivedCommunist Party of India (Marxist) held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 31.1% to 13.4%.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 5.9% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
- New challengerJanahitha Paksha (JP) finished second with 41.1% — it did not contest here in 1987.
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 95.6% of the vote between them, up from 89.7% — a tighter two-way contest.
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
95,155
Margin
12,798
13.45%
Candidates
6 contested · winner CPM- 1SUNDAR HAZRACommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM51,88654.5%
- 2BIJOY MAHATAJanahitha Paksha · JP39,08841.1%
- 3ASHOK KUMAR ROYBharatiya Janata Party · BJP1,9552.1%
- 4BADAL MAHATAIndependent · IND1,3611.4%
- 5PARIMAL MAHATAIndependent · IND6190.7%
- 6SASANKA PATRAAMB · AMB2460.3%
Since 1987
Derived- Winner then
- CPM
- Winner now
- CPM
- CPM–JP swing
- −46.9%
- CPM share
- 60.4% → 54.5%
- JP share
- 0.0% → 41.1%
- Turnout
- — → —