Constituency
230. Gopiballavpur
Community mirrorWest Bengal Assembly Election, 1991
WB-GOPIBALLAVPUR
CPM 62.1%won by 40.0%INC 22.2%
What changed here
DerivedCommunist Party of India (Marxist) held the seat; the winning margin widened from 21.7% to 40.0%.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 84.3% between them, down from 93.0% — 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
98,140
Margin
39,224
39.97%
Candidates
7 contested · winner CPM- 1ATUL CHANDRA DASCommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM60,99062.1%
- 2PRASUN SARANGIIndian National Congress · INC21,76622.2%
- 3AANIRUDDHA GHORAICommunist Party of India (Marxist-Leninist) (Liberation) · CPIML11,11511.3%
- 4KHAGENDRA NATH MISRABharatiya Janata Party · BJP2,0472.1%
- 5SUNIL MAHATAIndependent · IND1,5321.6%
- 6SURENDRA NATH MAHATAIndependent · IND3970.4%
- 7MADAN SAWIndependent · IND2930.3%
Since 1987
Derived- Winner then
- CPM
- Winner now
- CPM
- CPM–INC swing
- +18.2%
- CPM share
- 57.4% → 62.1%
- INC share
- 35.6% → 22.2%
- Turnout
- — → —