Constituency
225. Kharagpur Rural
Community mirrorWest Bengal Assembly Election, 1991
WB-KHARAGPUR-RURAL
CPM 56.5%won by 26.9%INC 29.6%
What changed here
DerivedCommunist Party of India (Marxist) held the seat; the winning margin widened from 20.8% to 26.9%.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 86.1% between them, down from 97.7% — the field split more ways.
- Safe seatCommunist Party of India (Marxist) won by more than 25 points — a stronghold, not a contest.
- 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
1,03,963
Margin
28,016
26.95%
Candidates
6 contested · winner CPM- 1SK. NAZMUL HAQUECommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM58,77956.5%
- 2NIRMAL GHOSHIndian National Congress · INC30,76329.6%
- 3SASANKHA SEKHAR PATRABharatiya Janata Party · BJP12,42412.0%
- 4SASANKHA MAHATAIndependent · IND1,1871.1%
- 5SIDAM GHOSHIndependent · IND4660.4%
- 6ANWAR HOSSAINBahujan Samaj Party · BSP3440.3%
Since 1987
Derived- Winner then
- CPM
- Winner now
- CPM
- CPM–INC swing
- +6.1%
- CPM share
- 59.3% → 56.5%
- INC share
- 38.4% → 29.6%
- Turnout
- — → —