Constituency
508. Panskura
Community mirrorWest Bengal · India Lok Sabha Election, 1991
IN-PANSKURA
CPI 55.0%won by 17.7%INC 37.2%
What changed here
DerivedCommunist Party of India held the seat; the winning margin held roughly steady from 17.4% to 17.7%.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 3.1% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 92.2% between them, down from 98.9% — the field split more ways.
- TurnoutTurnout fell 2.6% to 81.7%.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
8,71,446
Turnout
81.7%
Valid votes
7,12,289
Margin
1,26,300
17.73%
Candidates
9 contested · winner CPI- 1GITA MUKHERJEE (W)Communist Party of India · CPI3,91,50955.0%
- 2SUDHANSHU BHOWMIKIndian National Congress · INC2,65,20937.2%
- 3PANNALAL BHATTACHARYABharatiya Janata Party · BJP42,0595.9%
- 4MANIK MAITYIndependent · IND4,1210.6%
- 5JAGDISWAR PANJAJanahitha Paksha · JP3,8740.5%
- 6MAITY SUKESHIndependent · IND1,7080.2%
- 7RABINDRA KUMAR GHOSHIndependent · IND1,3280.2%
- 8SIKARI DHOBEYDDP · DDP1,2780.2%
- 9PURUSOTTAMLAL UPADHYAYIndependent · IND1,2030.2%
Since 1989
Derived- Winner then
- CPI
- Winner now
- CPI
- CPI–INC swing
- +0.4%
- CPI share
- 58.1% → 55.0%
- INC share
- 40.8% → 37.2%
- Turnout
- 84.4% → 81.7%