Constituency
231. Jhargram
Community mirrorWest Bengal Assembly Election, 1991
WB-JHARGRAM
CPM 59.5%won by 33.7%INC 25.8%
What changed here
DerivedCommunist Party of India (Marxist) held the seat; the winning margin widened from 12.1% to 33.7%.
- 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
1,07,058
Margin
36,045
33.67%
Candidates
7 contested · winner CPM- 1BUDDHA DEB BHAKATCommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM63,66159.5%
- 2NIKHIL MAITIIndian National Congress · INC27,61625.8%
- 3GURUPADA MAHATACommunist Party of India (Marxist-Leninist) (Liberation) · CPIML8,1767.6%
- 4NIKHIL MAHATAIndependent · IND3,3953.2%
- 5BADAL SENBharatiya Janata Party · BJP3,3463.1%
- 6ASIM ROYJanahitha Paksha · JP6190.6%
- 7GOBINDA CHARAN SADHUIndependent · IND2450.2%
Since 1987
Derived- Winner then
- CPM
- Winner now
- CPM
- CPM–INC swing
- +21.5%
- CPM share
- 50.3% → 59.5%
- INC share
- 38.1% → 25.8%
- Turnout
- — → —