Constituency
496. Diamond Harbour
Community mirrorWest Bengal · India Lok Sabha Election, 1991
IN-DIAMOND-HARBOUR
CPM 48.1%won by 6.5%INC 41.7%
What changed here
DerivedCommunist Party of India (Marxist) held the seat; the winning margin widened from 5.9% to 6.5%.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 89.8% between them, down from 96.3% — the field split more ways.
- TurnoutTurnout fell 4.8% to 73.2%.
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Electorate
9,61,802
Turnout
73.2%
Valid votes
7,04,176
Margin
45,512
6.46%
Candidates
7 contested · winner CPM- 1AMAL DUTTACommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM3,38,88448.1%
- 2MAYA GHOSH (W)Indian National Congress · INC2,93,37241.7%
- 3MUZAFFAR KHANBharatiya Janata Party · BJP62,2198.8%
- 4LIAKAT ALI MONDALMUL · MUL3,7400.5%
- 5SATTAR LASKARIndependent · IND2,8630.4%
- 6CHANDRA SEKHAR BHATTACHARJEEHSS · HSS1,5520.2%
- 7LAILUNNESHA (W)Independent · IND1,5460.2%
Since 1989
Derived- Winner then
- CPM
- Winner now
- CPM
- CPM–INC swing
- +0.6%
- CPM share
- 51.1% → 48.1%
- INC share
- 45.2% → 41.7%
- Turnout
- 78.0% → 73.2%