Constituency
482. Jalpaiguri
Community mirrorWest Bengal · India Lok Sabha Election, 1991
IN-JALPAIGURI
CPM 50.2%won by 15.7%INC 34.4%
What changed here
DerivedCommunist Party of India (Marxist) held the seat; the winning margin held roughly steady from 15.4% to 15.7%.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 3.1% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 84.6% between them, down from 91.0% — the field split more ways.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
9,48,985
Turnout
76.5%
Valid votes
7,26,385
Margin
1,14,356
15.74%
Candidates
9 contested · winner CPM- 1JITENDRA NATH DASCommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM3,64,28550.2%
- 2TUSHAR KANTI CHOUDHURIIndian National Congress · INC2,49,92934.4%
- 3SISIR LAHIRIBharatiya Janata Party · BJP77,74110.7%
- 4TEK BAHADUR CHHETRIIndependent · IND12,1981.7%
- 5JAY DEV MANDALIndependent · IND6,3500.9%
- 6CHITTARANJAN SARKARBahujan Samaj Party · BSP6,3050.9%
- 7AMAL ROYCommunist Party of India (Marxist-Leninist) (Liberation) · CPIML5,2290.7%
- 8RUKMINI RANJAN ROYIndependent · IND2,7490.4%
- 9CHANDRA SEKHAR CHOUDHURIIndependent · IND1,5990.2%
Since 1989
Derived- Winner then
- CPM
- Winner now
- CPM
- CPM–INC swing
- +0.4%
- CPM share
- 53.2% → 50.2%
- INC share
- 37.8% → 34.4%
- Turnout
- 77.9% → 76.5%