Constituency
280. Katwa
Community mirrorWest Bengal Assembly Election, 1991
WB-KATWA
CPM 42.1%won by 3.5%INC 38.6%
What changed here
DerivedCommunist Party of India (Marxist) held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 10.7% to 3.5%.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 12.1% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 80.7% between them, down from 97.7% — 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
1,16,966
Margin
4,043
3.46%
Candidates
5 contested · winner CPMSince 1987
Derived- Winner then
- CPM
- Winner now
- CPM
- CPM–INC swing
- −7.2%
- CPM share
- 54.2% → 42.1%
- INC share
- 43.5% → 38.6%
- Turnout
- — → —