Constituency
271. Burdwan South
Community mirrorWest Bengal Assembly Election, 1991
WB-BURDWAN-SOUTH
CPM 46.8%won by 9.8%INC 36.9%
What changed here
DerivedCommunist Party of India (Marxist) held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 10.7% to 9.8%.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 6.8% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 83.7% between them, down from 96.5% — 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
1,36,345
Margin
13,425
9.85%
Candidates
5 contested · winner CPMSince 1987
Derived- Winner then
- CPM
- Winner now
- CPM
- CPM–INC swing
- −0.8%
- CPM share
- 53.6% → 46.8%
- INC share
- 42.9% → 36.9%
- Turnout
- — → —