Constituency
505. Serampore
Community mirrorWest Bengal · India Lok Sabha Election, 1991
IN-SERAMPORE
CPM 46.2%won by 5.6%INC 40.6%
What changed here
DerivedCommunist Party of India (Marxist) held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 8.3% to 5.6%.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 6.8% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 86.8% between them, down from 97.8% — the field split more ways.
- TurnoutTurnout fell 4.8% to 70.8%.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
11,21,057
Turnout
70.8%
Valid votes
7,93,238
Margin
44,497
5.61%
Candidates
10 contested · winner CPM- 1SUDARSAN ROY CHOWDHURYCommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM3,66,53546.2%
- 2BIMALKANTI GHOSHIndian National Congress · INC3,22,03840.6%
- 3DWARKA PRASAD THIRANIBharatiya Janata Party · BJP91,28911.5%
- 4PRASANTASANKAR GHATAKIndependent · IND3,2850.4%
- 5GAUTAM BANERJEEIndependent · IND2,8310.4%
- 6SAMIR KUMAR MITRABahujan Samaj Party · BSP2,7950.4%
- 7MILAN MOOKHERJEEIndependent · IND1,4910.2%
- 8PREM NATH THAKURDDP · DDP1,1490.1%
- 9DEB KUMAR DUTTAIndependent · IND1,0240.1%
- 10INDRAJIT SEALIndependent · IND8010.1%
Since 1989
Derived- Winner then
- CPM
- Winner now
- CPM
- CPM–INC swing
- −2.6%
- CPM share
- 53.0% → 46.2%
- INC share
- 44.8% → 40.6%
- Turnout
- 75.5% → 70.8%