Constituency
484. Raiganj
Community mirrorWest Bengal · India Lok Sabha Election, 1991
IN-RAIGANJ
CPM 41.8%won by 4.0%INC 37.8%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Indian National Congress (INC) lost it to Communist Party of India (Marxist) (CPM), which now leads by 4.0%.
- CPM vote shareCPM went from 45.3% to 41.8% of the vote here (−3.4%).
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 79.7% between them, down from 90.9% — the field split more ways.
- TurnoutTurnout fell 2.5% to 72.9%.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
10,16,789
Turnout
72.9%
Valid votes
7,41,174
Margin
29,968
4.04%
Candidates
11 contested · winner CPM- 1SYBARTA MUKERJEECommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM3,10,16741.8%
- 2GOLAM YAZDANIIndian National Congress · INC2,80,19937.8%
- 3SUDARSHAN BHATTACHARYABharatiya Janata Party · BJP1,21,71716.4%
- 4AJIT KUMAR DASIndependent · IND7,8771.1%
- 5ANIL CHANDRA BISWASBahujan Samaj Party · BSP7,6831.0%
- 6MAQBUL HOSSAINMUL · MUL3,5630.5%
- 7MD. SALIMUDDINJanahitha Paksha · JP3,3670.5%
- 8DINESH CHANDRA SINHAIndependent · IND3,3270.4%
- 9MAHATO MAHENDRA NATHIndependent · IND1,5320.2%
- 10MAHABIR PROSAD AGARWALIndependent · IND9100.1%
- 11RUBIRUDDINIndependent · IND8320.1%
Since 1989
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- CPMflipped
- CPM–INC swing
- +4.4%
- CPM share
- 45.3% → 41.8%
- INC share
- 45.6% → 37.8%
- Turnout
- 75.4% → 72.9%