Constituency
260. Asansol
Community mirrorWest Bengal Assembly Election, 1991
WB-ASANSOL
CPM 43.3%won by 12.1%BJP 31.2%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Indian National Congress (INC) lost it to Communist Party of India (Marxist) (CPM), which now leads by 12.1%.
- CPM vote shareCPM went from 46.8% to 43.3% of the vote here (−3.5%).
- New challengerBharatiya Janata Party (BJP) finished second with 31.2% — it did not contest here in 1987.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 74.5% between them, down from 95.5% — the field split more ways.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
—
not in source
Turnout
—
not in source
Valid votes
1,01,237
Margin
12,242
12.09%
Candidates
12 contested · winner CPM- 1GOUTAM ROY CHOWDHURYCommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM43,84443.3%
- 2BAJRANGI GUPTABharatiya Janata Party · BJP31,60231.2%
- 3PRABUDDHA LAHAIndian National Congress · INC24,22823.9%
- 4DHANANJOY MUKHERJEEIndependent · IND2790.3%
- 5MANIK BAYENAMB · AMB2720.3%
- 6RABIYA KHATOONIndependent · IND2480.2%
- 7PREMANANDA MAJIJharkhand Mukti Morcha · JMM2320.2%
- 8BARAN DEO RAMBahujan Samaj Party · BSP2110.2%
- 9NOORAN NABIIndependent · IND1250.1%
- 10AYAJ AHAMED KHANIndependent · IND840.1%
- 11HARISH CHANDRA RAJBHARDDP · DDP590.1%
- 12PRASANTA KARIndependent · IND530.1%
Since 1987
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- CPMflipped
- CPM–BJP swing
- −34.7%
- CPM share
- 46.8% → 43.3%
- BJP share
- 0.0% → 31.2%
- Turnout
- — → —