Constituency
242. Kashipur
Community mirrorWest Bengal Assembly Election, 1991
WB-KASHIPUR
CPM 57.2%won by 31.6%INC 25.6%
What changed here
DerivedCommunist Party of India (Marxist) held the seat; the winning margin widened from 19.9% to 31.6%.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 82.8% between them, down from 94.0% — 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
84,560
Margin
26,760
31.65%
Candidates
6 contested · winner CPM- 1SURENDRA NATH MAJHICommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM48,37157.2%
- 2NANDALAL SARENIndian National Congress · INC21,61125.6%
- 3RAMESWAR MAJHIBharatiya Janata Party · BJP8,55010.1%
- 4NARAYAN NCHANDRA MURMUMUJharkhand Mukti Morcha · JMM4,4285.2%
- 5SAMBHU NATH MAJHIIndependent · IND1,0201.2%
- 6MAHINDRA KISKUJanahitha Paksha · JP5800.7%
Since 1987
Derived- Winner then
- CPM
- Winner now
- CPM
- CPM–INC swing
- +11.8%
- CPM share
- 56.9% → 57.2%
- INC share
- 37.0% → 25.6%
- Turnout
- — → —