Constituency
226. Keshiari
Community mirrorWest Bengal Assembly Election, 1991
WB-KESHIARI
CPM 63.8%won by 39.6%INC 24.1%
What changed here
DerivedCommunist Party of India (Marxist) held the seat; the winning margin widened from 27.6% to 39.6%.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 87.9% 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
1,02,731
Margin
40,705
39.62%
Candidates
7 contested · winner CPM- 1MAHESWAR MURMUCommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM65,49763.8%
- 2REKHA KISHUIndian National Congress · INC24,79224.1%
- 3MOHAN CHANDRA SINGHBharatiya Janata Party · BJP8,7048.5%
- 4RAMESH SARENIndependent · IND1,4461.4%
- 5SURENDRA SINGHHJP · HJP1,3621.3%
- 6MONGAL BASKEYAMB · AMB4710.5%
- 7CHARAN MANDIIndependent · IND4590.4%
Since 1987
Derived- Winner then
- CPM
- Winner now
- CPM
- CPM–INC swing
- +12.1%
- CPM share
- 62.6% → 63.8%
- INC share
- 35.1% → 24.1%
- Turnout
- — → —