Constituency
266. Kanksa
Community mirrorWest Bengal Assembly Election, 1991
WB-KANKSA
CPM 63.7%won by 39.2%INC 24.5%
What changed here
DerivedCommunist Party of India (Marxist) held the seat; the winning margin widened from 31.0% to 39.2%.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 88.3% 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
1,03,260
Margin
40,495
39.22%
Candidates
5 contested · winner CPMSince 1987
Derived- Winner then
- CPM
- Winner now
- CPM
- CPM–INC swing
- +8.2%
- CPM share
- 65.5% → 63.7%
- INC share
- 34.5% → 24.5%
- Turnout
- — → —