Constituency
262. Jamuria
Community mirrorWest Bengal Assembly Election, 1991
WB-JAMURIA
CPM 61.0%won by 37.5%INC 23.4%
What changed here
DerivedCommunist Party of India (Marxist) held the seat; the winning margin widened from 23.9% to 37.5%.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 84.4% between them, down from 93.3% — 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
96,198
Margin
36,122
37.55%
Candidates
8 contested · winner CPM- 1CHOWDHURY BIKASHCommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM58,64261.0%
- 2TAPAS BANERJEEIndian National Congress · INC22,52023.4%
- 3LAKSHMAN BAURIBharatiya Janata Party · BJP12,17912.7%
- 4DASARATH DASBahujan Samaj Party · BSP9130.9%
- 5SANATAN TUDUJharkhand Mukti Morcha · JMM6860.7%
- 6ARUN MONDALCommunist Party of India (Marxist-Leninist) (Liberation) · CPIML6560.7%
- 7NARAYAN PANDITIndependent · IND3020.3%
- 8MUROLIDHAR TIWARIDDP · DDP3000.3%
Since 1987
Derived- Winner then
- CPM
- Winner now
- CPM
- CPM–INC swing
- +13.7%
- CPM share
- 58.6% → 61.0%
- INC share
- 34.7% → 23.4%
- Turnout
- — → —