Constituency
234. Manbazar
Community mirrorWest Bengal Assembly Election, 1991
WB-MANBAZAR
CPM 55.4%won by 23.4%INC 32.0%
What changed here
DerivedCommunist Party of India (Marxist) held the seat; the winning margin widened from 6.3% to 23.4%.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 87.4% between them, down from 99.0% — the field split more ways.
- 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
98,651
Margin
23,038
23.35%
Candidates
7 contested · winner CPM- 1KAMALA KANTA MAHATACommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM54,63055.4%
- 2NIRMAL PRASAD MAHATOIndian National Congress · INC31,59232.0%
- 3RAM CHANDRA MAJHIJharkhand Mukti Morcha · JMM7,8458.0%
- 4YUBA LAL MAJHIIndependent · IND1,8881.9%
- 5ANJULA PANDABharatiya Janata Party · BJP1,7231.7%
- 6TAPAN KUMAR HALDARIndependent · IND7480.8%
- 7KRISHNA PADA MAHATAIndependent · IND2250.2%
Since 1987
Derived- Winner then
- CPM
- Winner now
- CPM
- CPM–INC swing
- +17.1%
- CPM share
- 52.6% → 55.4%
- INC share
- 46.4% → 32.0%
- Turnout
- — → —