Constituency
503. Howrah
Community mirrorWest Bengal · India Lok Sabha Election, 1991
IN-HOWRAH
CPM 44.7%won by 0.9%INC 43.8%
What changed here
DerivedCommunist Party of India (Marxist) held the seat; the winning margin widened from 0.2% to 0.9%.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 3.9% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 88.5% between them, down from 97.1% — the field split more ways.
- TurnoutTurnout fell 5.0% to 67.5%.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
11,66,213
Turnout
67.5%
Valid votes
7,86,793
Margin
7,380
0.94%
Candidates
24 contested · winner CPM- 1SUSANTA CHAKRABORTY S/O SUDHIRCommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM3,51,74444.7%
- 2PRIYA RANJAN DAS MUNSHIIndian National Congress · INC3,44,36443.8%
- 3SACHINDRA NATH MUKHERJEEBharatiya Janata Party · BJP69,1368.8%
- 4PREM NATH SINGHIndependent · IND3,5470.5%
- 5PAWAN KUMAR SUREKAIndependent · IND2,1060.3%
- 6SUPAPSHOM MANNAJanahitha Paksha · JP2,0950.3%
- 7TAPAN DUTTA GUPTAWPI · WPI1,7810.2%
- 8TAPASI RAMBahujan Samaj Party · BSP1,6580.2%
- 9RAM CHANDRA ADAKIndependent · IND1,5310.2%
- 10PRABIR PAULIndependent · IND1,3470.2%
- 11SUSANTA CHAKRAVERTY S/O SHANKARIndependent · IND1,0820.1%
- 12BISWAJIT MUKHERJEEIndependent · IND9500.1%
- 13SANTIMOY MUKHERJEEIndependent · IND8990.1%
- 14DHARAMPAL SINGHIndependent · IND8780.1%
- 15SUSHANTA CHAKRAVERTY S/O KALIPADAIndependent · IND7370.1%
- 16RAJENDRA PRASAD KUSHADDP · DDP5230.1%
- 17MANZURUL MANNANIndependent · IND4190.1%
- 18BHAB SHILPI GOPAL DEYIndependent · IND3310.0%
- 19NEMAI MUNSHIIndependent · IND3210.0%
- 20AMAR NATH BANERJEEIndependent · IND2950.0%
- 21SAWAL SINGHIndependent · IND2920.0%
- 22RANJIT CHATTERJEEIndependent · IND2920.0%
- 23RAJENDRA NATH GUPTAIndependent · IND2640.0%
- 24DULAL MALIndependent · IND2010.0%
Since 1989
Derived- Winner then
- CPM
- Winner now
- CPM
- CPM–INC swing
- +0.8%
- CPM share
- 48.6% → 44.7%
- INC share
- 48.5% → 43.8%
- Turnout
- 72.4% → 67.5%