Constituency
237. Jhalda
Community mirrorWest Bengal Assembly Election, 1991
WB-JHALDA
FBL 42.5%won by 6.6%INC 35.8%
What changed here
DerivedFBL held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 9.6% to 6.6%.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 10.2% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 78.3% between them, down from 95.6% — the field split more ways.
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
89,157
Margin
5,926
6.65%
Candidates
9 contested · winner FBL- 1SATYAN RANJANK MAHATAFBL · FBL37,85242.5%
- 2SUBHAS CHANDRA MAHATAIndian National Congress · INC31,92635.8%
- 3DUBRAJ MAHATABharatiya Janata Party · BJP9,80111.0%
- 4MOHITOSH MAHATOJharkhand Mukti Morcha · JMM7,4508.4%
- 5NARENDRA NATH MAHATOJanahitha Paksha · JP6470.7%
- 6PASHU PATI MAHATOAMB · AMB4720.5%
- 7SUPHAL KUMARIndependent · IND4620.5%
- 8KAIBARTA BAIDYANATHHJP · HJP4480.5%
- 9KUMUD RANJAN MAHATOIndependent · IND990.1%
Since 1987
Derived- Winner then
- FBL
- Winner now
- FBL
- FBL–INC swing
- −3.0%
- FBL share
- 52.6% → 42.5%
- INC share
- 43.0% → 35.8%
- Turnout
- — → —