Constituency
264. Durgapur-I
Community mirrorWest Bengal Assembly Election, 1991
WB-DURGAPUR-I
CPM 50.5%won by 16.1%INC 34.4%
What changed here
DerivedCommunist Party of India (Marxist) held the seat; the winning margin widened from 8.0% to 16.1%.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 85.0% between them, down from 95.8% — the field split more ways.
- 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
1,00,038
Margin
16,113
16.11%
Candidates
9 contested · winner CPM- 1DILIP MAZUMDARCommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM50,56450.5%
- 2NARAYAN HAZARA CHOWDHURYIndian National Congress · INC34,45134.4%
- 3SUYA KUMAR CHAKRABRTYBharatiya Janata Party · BJP10,64010.6%
- 4MADHUSUDAN SINHAIndependent · IND2,2462.2%
- 5MUKUL SAMANTAAMB · AMB6560.7%
- 6RAM CHANDRA HANSDAJharkhand Mukti Morcha · JMM6210.6%
- 7KANIKA BADYAKARBahujan Samaj Party · BSP5720.6%
- 8BIBHUTI MONDALDDP · DDP2090.2%
- 9INDRANI MALLICK (PAL)Independent · IND790.1%
Since 1987
Derived- Winner then
- CPM
- Winner now
- CPM
- CPM–INC swing
- +8.1%
- CPM share
- 51.9% → 50.5%
- INC share
- 43.9% → 34.4%
- Turnout
- — → —