Constituency
265. Durgapur-Ii
Community mirrorWest Bengal Assembly Election, 1991
WB-DURGAPUR-II
CPM 50.5%won by 16.0%INC 34.5%
What changed here
DerivedCommunist Party of India (Marxist) held the seat; the winning margin widened from 14.3% to 16.0%.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 5.4% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 85.0% between them, down from 97.4% — the field split more ways.
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
1,45,278
Margin
23,232
15.99%
Candidates
10 contested · winner CPM- 1TARUN CHATTERJECommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM73,37150.5%
- 2LASIT CHATTERAJIndian National Congress · INC50,13934.5%
- 3MOHAR LAL BANERJEEBharatiya Janata Party · BJP17,56212.1%
- 4RATAN HANSDAJharkhand Mukti Morcha · JMM1,2070.8%
- 5SATYAKINKAR DASBahujan Samaj Party · BSP8500.6%
- 6ANANTA LAL GUPTAIndependent · IND7550.5%
- 7SUSANTA REJJanahitha Paksha · JP5950.4%
- 8SARAT CHANDRA SENA PATIAMB · AMB4500.3%
- 9BAIJU NATH MONDALDDP · DDP2070.1%
- 10DEBENDRA PRASAD GUPTAIndependent · IND1420.1%
Since 1987
Derived- Winner then
- CPM
- Winner now
- CPM
- CPM–INC swing
- +1.7%
- CPM share
- 55.9% → 50.5%
- INC share
- 41.6% → 34.5%
- Turnout
- — → —