Constituency
289. Mahammad Bazar
Community mirrorWest Bengal Assembly Election, 1991
WB-MAHAMMAD-BAZAR
CPM 56.2%won by 32.8%BJP 23.4%
What changed here
DerivedCommunist Party of India (Marxist) held the seat; the winning margin widened from 18.7% to 32.8%.
- New challengerBharatiya Janata Party (BJP) finished second with 23.4% — it did not contest here in 1987.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 79.6% between them, down from 98.7% — 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
1,00,599
Margin
32,976
32.78%
Candidates
7 contested · winner CPM- 1DHIREN SENCommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM56,52556.2%
- 2NIRMAL CHANDRA MANDALBharatiya Janata Party · BJP23,54923.4%
- 3NITY ANIRANJAN BANERJEEIndian National Congress · INC19,26919.2%
- 4KUDDUS ALIIndependent · IND5850.6%
- 5CHANDRADHAR PALIndependent · IND3620.4%
- 6SWAPAN GHOSHAMB · AMB2080.2%
- 7ABU TAHER MIRZAIndependent · IND1010.1%
Since 1987
Derived- Winner then
- CPM
- Winner now
- CPM
- CPM–BJP swing
- −25.9%
- CPM share
- 58.7% → 56.2%
- BJP share
- 0.0% → 23.4%
- Turnout
- — → —