Constituency
246. Ranibandh
Community mirrorWest Bengal Assembly Election, 1991
WB-RANIBANDH
CPM 55.4%won by 31.0%INC 24.4%
What changed here
DerivedCommunist Party of India (Marxist) held the seat; the winning margin widened from 17.6% to 31.0%.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 79.7% between them, down from 95.4% — 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
86,852
Margin
26,924
31.00%
Candidates
6 contested · winner CPM- 1ARATI BEMBRAMCommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM48,08955.4%
- 2SUDARSAN BASKEYIndian National Congress · INC21,16524.4%
- 3JALESWAR SARENIndependent · IND7,6818.8%
- 4DURGA CHARAN SARENBharatiya Janata Party · BJP5,3326.1%
- 5KRISHNA PADA KISKUIndependent · IND3,6684.2%
- 6JITEN MURMUIndependent · IND9171.1%
Since 1987
Derived- Winner then
- CPM
- Winner now
- CPM
- CPM–INC swing
- +13.4%
- CPM share
- 56.5% → 55.4%
- INC share
- 38.9% → 24.4%
- Turnout
- — → —