Constituency
502. Calcutta South
Community mirrorWest Bengal · India Lok Sabha Election, 1991
IN-CALCUTTA-SOUTH
INC 52.5%won by 13.4%CPM 39.1%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Communist Party of India (Marxist) (CPM) lost it to Indian National Congress (INC), which now leads by 13.4%.
- INC vote shareINC went from 46.6% to 52.5% of the vote here (+5.9%).
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 91.6% between them, down from 96.7% — the field split more ways.
- TurnoutTurnout fell 4.4% to 67.2%.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
10,42,903
Turnout
67.2%
Valid votes
7,01,290
Margin
93,663
13.36%
Candidates
12 contested · winner INC- 1MAMATA BANERJEE (W)Indian National Congress · INC3,67,89652.5%
- 2BIPLAB DAS GUPTACommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM2,74,23339.1%
- 3SOMRAJ DUTTABharatiya Janata Party · BJP50,5417.2%
- 4ASHOK KR. ROY CHOWDHURYIndependent · IND1,9580.3%
- 5SUSHIL CHANDRA MAJUMDERIndependent · IND1,7790.3%
- 6PARIMAL KANTI RAYBahujan Samaj Party · BSP1,1210.2%
- 7PRITI MAZUMDER (W)Independent · IND8770.1%
- 8BANDANA BISWAS (W)Independent · IND8370.1%
- 9HARI SHANKAR SAHDDP · DDP7920.1%
- 10RAJRANCHHOR CHAND BHANDARIIndependent · IND5480.1%
- 11BHAGWAN DAS NATHANYHSS · HSS4130.1%
- 12ARUN GHOSHIndependent · IND2950.0%
Since 1989
Derived- Winner then
- CPM
- Winner now
- INCflipped
- INC–CPM swing
- +16.8%
- INC share
- 46.6% → 52.5%
- CPM share
- 50.1% → 39.1%
- Turnout
- 71.7% → 67.2%