Constituency
235. Balrampur
Community mirrorWest Bengal Assembly Election, 1991
WB-BALRAMPUR
CPM 65.6%won by 44.5%INC 21.1%
What changed here
DerivedCommunist Party of India (Marxist) held the seat; the winning margin widened from 32.0% to 44.5%.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 86.7% between them, down from 95.7% — 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
86,761
Margin
38,624
44.52%
Candidates
6 contested · winner CPM- 1BHANDU MAJHICommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM56,94265.6%
- 2SUBHAS MUDIIndian National Congress · INC18,31821.1%
- 3BINODE SINGH SARDARJharkhand Mukti Morcha · JMM7,8109.0%
- 4BIBHUTI SARENBharatiya Janata Party · BJP2,6473.1%
- 5AMIR SINGH LAYAIPF · IPF7630.9%
- 6AJOY TUDU (MAJHI)Jan Kalyan Party · JKP2810.3%
Since 1987
Derived- Winner then
- CPM
- Winner now
- CPM
- CPM–INC swing
- +12.5%
- CPM share
- 63.9% → 65.6%
- INC share
- 31.8% → 21.1%
- Turnout
- — → —