Constituency
493. Basirhat
Community mirrorWest Bengal · India Lok Sabha Election, 1991
IN-BASIRHAT
CPI 47.0%won by 9.4%INC 37.6%
What changed here
DerivedCommunist Party of India held the seat; the winning margin widened from 2.7% to 9.4%.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 3.3% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 84.6% between them, down from 98.0% — the field split more ways.
- TurnoutTurnout fell 2.4% to 82.8%.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
9,19,022
Turnout
82.8%
Valid votes
7,60,922
Margin
71,642
9.42%
Candidates
9 contested · winner CPI- 1MONORANJAN SURCommunist Party of India · CPI3,57,77447.0%
- 2SARDAR AMJAD ALIIndian National Congress · INC2,86,13237.6%
- 3SUKUMAR BANERJIBharatiya Janata Party · BJP1,03,03513.5%
- 4DEBAPRASAD BHANJA CHOUDHURYIndependent · IND4,2790.6%
- 5DHIENDRA NATH GHOSHJanahitha Paksha · JP3,3700.4%
- 6SHYAM NARAYAN JESHOWARADDP · DDP1,7700.2%
- 7AL-GAZ ABDUL SALAMMUL · MUL1,6700.2%
- 8LIAKAT ALI MONDALIndependent · IND1,5090.2%
- 9AMARENDRA NATH BISWASBahujan Samaj Party · BSP1,3830.2%
Since 1989
Derived- Winner then
- CPI
- Winner now
- CPI
- CPI–INC swing
- +6.7%
- CPI share
- 50.3% → 47.0%
- INC share
- 47.6% → 37.6%
- Turnout
- 85.2% → 82.8%