Constituency
510. Contai
Community mirrorWest Bengal · India Lok Sabha Election, 1991
IN-CONTAI
CPM 47.2%won by 3.4%INC 43.9%
What changed here
DerivedCommunist Party of India (Marxist) held the seat; the winning margin held roughly steady from 3.8% to 3.4%.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 4.5% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 91.1% between them, down from 99.6% — the field split more ways.
- TurnoutTurnout fell 3.3% to 78.7%.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
8,70,090
Turnout
78.7%
Valid votes
6,84,746
Margin
23,116
3.38%
Candidates
8 contested · winner CPM- 1SUDHIR GIRICommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM3,23,39047.2%
- 2ABHA MAITI (W)Indian National Congress · INC3,00,27443.9%
- 3AMELESH MISRABharatiya Janata Party · BJP45,3846.6%
- 4BIMAL JANAIndependent · IND4,9460.7%
- 5ARABINDA MANNAJanahitha Paksha · JP4,7990.7%
- 6RANA SANTOSHIndependent · IND3,5030.5%
- 7KAHAR BATESWARDDP · DDP1,2390.2%
- 8ADHAR NAHALHMS · HMS1,2110.2%
Since 1989
Derived- Winner then
- CPM
- Winner now
- CPM
- CPM–INC swing
- −0.5%
- CPM share
- 51.7% → 47.2%
- INC share
- 47.9% → 43.9%
- Turnout
- 82.0% → 78.7%