Constituency
497. Jadavpur
Community mirrorWest Bengal · India Lok Sabha Election, 1991
IN-JADAVPUR
CPM 46.8%won by 5.9%INC 40.9%
What changed here
DerivedCommunist Party of India (Marxist) held the seat; the winning margin widened from 3.5% to 5.9%.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 3.4% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 87.7% between them, down from 96.9% — the field split more ways.
- TurnoutTurnout fell 5.0% to 72.6%.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
11,73,319
Turnout
72.6%
Valid votes
8,51,960
Margin
50,301
5.90%
Candidates
10 contested · winner CPM- 1MALINI BHATTACHARYA (W)Communist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM3,98,89646.8%
- 2SANTOSH BHATTACHARYAIndian National Congress · INC3,48,59540.9%
- 3UTTAM BOSEBharatiya Janata Party · BJP87,85910.3%
- 4SUDHIR BHATTACHERJEEIndependent · IND4,5380.5%
- 5JOBED LOSKERIndependent · IND3,3950.4%
- 6VINAY KAUSHIKJanahitha Paksha · JP2,6070.3%
- 7SANDHYA MANDAL (W)Bahujan Samaj Party · BSP2,5720.3%
- 8JATINDRA NATH BISWASHSS · HSS1,2960.2%
- 9KALIDAS MONDALIndependent · IND1,2830.2%
- 10SHYAM SUNDER THAKURDDP · DDP9190.1%
Since 1989
Derived- Winner then
- CPM
- Winner now
- CPM
- CPM–INC swing
- +2.4%
- CPM share
- 50.2% → 46.8%
- INC share
- 46.7% → 40.9%
- Turnout
- 77.7% → 72.6%