Constituency
224. Kharagpur Town
Community mirrorWest Bengal Assembly Election, 1991
WB-KHARAGPUR-TOWN
INC 46.4%won by 14.7%CPM 31.7%
What changed here
DerivedIndian National Congress held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 15.7% to 14.7%.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 8.9% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 78.1% between them, down from 94.8% — 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
77,131
Margin
11,352
14.72%
Candidates
11 contested · winner INC- 1GYAN MSINGH SOHANPALIndian National Congress · INC35,79046.4%
- 2KALI NAYEKCommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM24,43831.7%
- 3PRADIP KUMAR PATNAIKBharatiya Janata Party · BJP12,77716.6%
- 4GOUTAM CHOUBEYIndependent · IND2,5923.4%
- 5RAJEN TEWARIJanahitha Paksha · JP4320.6%
- 6MD. HANIFIndependent · IND2750.4%
- 7MIR SARAFAT ALIBahujan Samaj Party · BSP2750.4%
- 8BIMAL CHATTERJEEIndependent · IND1990.3%
- 9SATYANARAYAN JOYSOYALDDP · DDP1730.2%
- 10GANESH VARMAIndependent · IND1040.1%
- 11GAUTAM GHOSHIndependent · IND760.1%
Since 1987
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- INC
- INC–CPM swing
- −1.0%
- INC share
- 55.3% → 46.4%
- CPM share
- 39.6% → 31.7%
- Turnout
- — → —