Constituency
506. Hooghly
Community mirrorWest Bengal · India Lok Sabha Election, 1991
IN-HOOGHLY
CPM 49.0%won by 7.1%INC 41.9%
What changed here
DerivedCommunist Party of India (Marxist) held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 8.8% to 7.1%.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 4.6% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 90.9% between them, down from 98.3% — the field split more ways.
- TurnoutTurnout fell 4.2% to 78.0%.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
10,02,466
Turnout
78.0%
Valid votes
7,82,176
Margin
55,659
7.12%
Candidates
8 contested · winner CPM- 1RUPCHAND PALCommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM3,83,23849.0%
- 2UMASNKAR HALDERIndian National Congress · INC3,27,57941.9%
- 3SUNIL DASBharatiya Janata Party · BJP58,4067.5%
- 4CHITTAGANTAITIndependent · IND3,7470.5%
- 5SANJIB BHATTACHARYYAIndependent · IND3,5070.4%
- 6JATINDRA NATH BORALBahujan Samaj Party · BSP3,4520.4%
- 7RAMJIUT PATWADDP · DDP1,4920.2%
- 8SATISH CHANDRA MALIndependent · IND7550.1%
Since 1989
Derived- Winner then
- CPM
- Winner now
- CPM
- CPM–INC swing
- −1.7%
- CPM share
- 53.6% → 49.0%
- INC share
- 44.8% → 41.9%
- Turnout
- 82.2% → 78.0%