Constituency
249. Gangajalghati
Community mirrorWest Bengal Assembly Election, 1991
WB-GANGAJALGHATI
CPM 58.6%won by 28.4%INC 30.2%
What changed here
DerivedCommunist Party of India (Marxist) held the seat; the winning margin widened from 20.8% to 28.4%.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 88.9% between them, down from 100.0% — the field split more ways.
- Safe seatCommunist Party of India (Marxist) won by more than 25 points — a stronghold, not a contest.
- Multi-cornered3 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
92,837
Margin
26,384
28.42%
Candidates
5 contested · winner CPM- 1ANGAD BAURICommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM54,43958.6%
- 2PHATIK CHANDRA MANDALIndian National Congress · INC28,05530.2%
- 3KARNA BAURIBharatiya Janata Party · BJP8,1368.8%
- 4GOPAL BAYENBahujan Samaj Party · BSP1,1621.3%
- 5TRILOCHAN MANDALIndependent · IND1,0451.1%
Since 1987
Derived- Winner then
- CPM
- Winner now
- CPM
- CPM–INC swing
- +7.6%
- CPM share
- 60.4% → 58.6%
- INC share
- 39.6% → 30.2%
- Turnout
- — → —