Constituency
228. Dantan
Community mirrorWest Bengal Assembly Election, 1991
WB-DANTAN
CPM 65.4%won by 45.7%INC 19.6%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Communist Party of India (CPI) lost it to Communist Party of India (Marxist) (CPM), which now leads by 45.7%.
- CPM vote shareCPM went from 0.0% to 65.4% of the vote here (+65.4%).
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 85.0% between them, down from 98.2% — 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
99,783
Margin
45,648
45.75%
Candidates
5 contested · winner CPM- 1PATRA RANJITCommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM65,22765.4%
- 2PANCHANAN MAHANTIIndian National Congress · INC19,57919.6%
- 3ABINASH DASBharatiya Janata Party · BJP13,77913.8%
- 4RAMHARI MANDIIndependent · IND6260.6%
- 5SACHINDRA NATH MANNAIndependent · IND5720.6%
Since 1987
Derived- Winner then
- CPI
- Winner now
- CPMflipped
- CPM–INC swing
- +77.5%
- CPM share
- 0.0% → 65.4%
- INC share
- 31.8% → 19.6%
- Turnout
- — → —