Constituency
241. Raghunathpur
Community mirrorWest Bengal Assembly Election, 1991
WB-RAGHUNATHPUR
CPM 51.1%won by 27.1%INC 24.0%
What changed here
DerivedCommunist Party of India (Marxist) held the seat; the winning margin widened from 16.2% to 27.1%.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 75.0% between them, down from 84.6% — the field split more ways.
- Safe seatCommunist Party of India (Marxist) 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
83,846
Margin
22,713
27.09%
Candidates
5 contested · winner CPM- 1NATABAR BAGDICommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM42,81951.1%
- 2GOPAL DASIndian National Congress · INC20,10624.0%
- 3BIJOY BAURIIndependent · IND10,01211.9%
- 4LAKSHMAN BOURIBharatiya Janata Party · BJP9,64411.5%
- 5KALA SONA BOURIJharkhand Mukti Morcha · JMM1,2651.5%
Since 1987
Derived- Winner then
- CPM
- Winner now
- CPM
- CPM–INC swing
- +10.9%
- CPM share
- 50.4% → 51.1%
- INC share
- 34.2% → 24.0%
- Turnout
- — → —