Constituency
509. Tamluk
Community mirrorWest Bengal · India Lok Sabha Election, 1991
IN-TAMLUK
CPM 46.2%won by 0.1%INC 46.0%
What changed here
DerivedCommunist Party of India (Marxist) held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 3.1% to 0.1%.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 3.9% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
- TurnoutTurnout fell 3.1% to 81.2%.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
9,39,938
Turnout
81.2%
Valid votes
7,62,850
Margin
1,062
0.14%
Candidates
6 contested · winner CPM- 1SATYAGOPAL MISRACommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM3,52,13946.2%
- 2JAYANTA BHATTACHARYAIndian National Congress · INC3,51,07746.0%
- 3BHHOLANATH DINDABharatiya Janata Party · BJP33,4254.4%
- 4JATIN PAKHIRAIndependent · IND12,6401.7%
- 5ASHUTOSH SAMANTAIndependent · IND12,2011.6%
- 6JAGAT SAUDDP · DDP1,3680.2%
Since 1989
Derived- Winner then
- CPM
- Winner now
- CPM
- CPM–INC swing
- −3.0%
- CPM share
- 50.0% → 46.2%
- INC share
- 46.9% → 46.0%
- Turnout
- 84.3% → 81.2%