Constituency
236. Arsa
Community mirrorWest Bengal Assembly Election, 1991
WB-ARSA
FBL 48.9%won by 27.1%INC 21.8%
What changed here
DerivedFBL held the seat; the winning margin widened from 10.6% to 27.1%.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 70.7% between them, down from 91.4% — the field split more ways.
- Safe seatFBL won by more than 25 points — a stronghold, not a contest.
- Multi-cornered4 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
86,054
Margin
23,305
27.08%
Candidates
10 contested · winner FBL- 1NISHI KANTA MEHTAFBL · FBL42,06248.9%
- 2HARE KRISHNA MAHATOIndian National Congress · INC18,75721.8%
- 3AJIT PRASAD MAHATAJharkhand Mukti Morcha · JMM15,10117.5%
- 4DHIRENDRA NATH KUMARBharatiya Janata Party · BJP6,5197.6%
- 5SUBARNA KUMARIndependent · IND1,9082.2%
- 6KHAGEN GOSWAMIJanahitha Paksha · JP9201.1%
- 7SARAJU PRASAD KUIRAMB · AMB3340.4%
- 8ASOK KUMAR CHATTOPADHAYAYIndependent · IND1810.2%
- 9MIHIR CHANDRA MAHATOIndependent · IND1630.2%
- 10SATYA NARAYAN MAJHIIndependent · IND1090.1%
Since 1987
Derived- Winner then
- FBL
- Winner now
- FBL
- FBL–INC swing
- +16.5%
- FBL share
- 51.0% → 48.9%
- INC share
- 40.4% → 21.8%
- Turnout
- — → —