Constituency
492. Barasat
Community mirrorWest Bengal · India Lok Sabha Election, 1991
IN-BARASAT
FBL 43.6%won by 5.1%INC 38.5%
What changed here
DerivedFBL held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 6.2% to 5.1%.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 6.9% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 82.1% between them, down from 94.8% — the field split more ways.
- TurnoutTurnout fell 2.9% to 81.7%.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
10,75,164
Turnout
81.7%
Valid votes
8,78,279
Margin
44,421
5.06%
Candidates
11 contested · winner FBL- 1CHITTA BASUFBL · FBL3,82,89643.6%
- 2ASHOK KRISHNA DUTTIndian National Congress · INC3,38,47538.5%
- 3HARASIT GHOSHBharatiya Janata Party · BJP1,23,42914.1%
- 4MD. SHADOT ALIMUL · MUL9,2301.1%
- 5NAKUL MALIKBahujan Samaj Party · BSP7,6840.9%
- 6ABDUL KASHIMIndependent · IND5,0930.6%
- 7UTPAL CHOUDHURYBharatiya Jana Sangh · BJS4,4580.5%
- 8TAPAN BISWASIndependent · IND2,9040.3%
- 9PRADIP PODDARIndependent · IND2,0570.2%
- 10SANTALAL HARIJANDDP · DDP1,3790.2%
- 11TUSHAR GAUTAMIndependent · IND6740.1%
Since 1989
Derived- Winner then
- FBL
- Winner now
- FBL
- FBL–INC swing
- −1.2%
- FBL share
- 50.5% → 43.6%
- INC share
- 44.3% → 38.5%
- Turnout
- 84.6% → 81.7%