Constituency
223. Midnapore
Community mirrorWest Bengal Assembly Election, 1991
WB-MIDNAPORE
CPI 53.5%won by 23.3%INC 30.2%
What changed here
DerivedCommunist Party of India held the seat; the winning margin widened from 7.1% to 23.3%.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 83.7% between them, down from 97.4% — 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
—
not in source
Turnout
—
not in source
Valid votes
1,16,439
Margin
27,165
23.33%
Candidates
11 contested · winner CPI- 1KAMAKSHA GHOSHCommunist Party of India · CPI62,30353.5%
- 2RAJ KUMAR MISHRAIndian National Congress · INC35,13830.2%
- 3MUKTESH GHOSHBharatiya Janata Party · BJP14,45812.4%
- 4SK. ABU HANNANMUL · MUL1,1631.0%
- 5ANIL KUMAR SINGHIndependent · IND9040.8%
- 6D. P. ROYJanahitha Paksha · JP8200.7%
- 7BANI KANTA BARIKIndependent · IND7900.7%
- 8APARNA DUTTAAMB · AMB4220.4%
- 9HOSSAIN NURBahujan Samaj Party · BSP1980.2%
- 10MADHUSUDAN DEYIndependent · IND1370.1%
- 11SATYANARAYAN JOYSHOALDDP · DDP1060.1%
Since 1987
Derived- Winner then
- CPI
- Winner now
- CPI
- CPI–INC swing
- +16.2%
- CPI share
- 52.3% → 53.5%
- INC share
- 45.1% → 30.2%
- Turnout
- — → —