Constituency
512. Jhargram
Community mirrorWest Bengal · India Lok Sabha Election, 1991
IN-JHARGRAM
CPM 55.8%won by 22.6%JKP 33.2%
What changed here
DerivedCommunist Party of India (Marxist) held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 33.1% to 22.6%.
- New challengerJan Kalyan Party (JKP) finished second with 33.2% — it did not contest here in 1989.
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 89.0% of the vote between them, up from 80.9% — a tighter two-way contest.
- TurnoutTurnout fell 3.4% to 76.2%.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
8,83,949
Turnout
76.2%
Valid votes
6,73,530
Margin
1,52,307
22.61%
Candidates
7 contested · winner CPM- 1RUPCHAND MURMUCommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM3,75,76055.8%
- 2AMIYA KISKUJan Kalyan Party · JKP2,23,45333.2%
- 3PANCHANAN HANSDABharatiya Janata Party · BJP36,0185.3%
- 4JOYRAM MANDIIndependent · IND21,5343.2%
- 5TUDU LEBA CHANDHJP · HJP7,0891.1%
- 6DEBENDRANATH MAJHIIndependent · IND6,9071.0%
- 7MANGAL BASKEYAMB · AMB2,7690.4%
Since 1989
Derived- Winner then
- CPM
- Winner now
- CPM
- CPM–JKP swing
- −34.4%
- CPM share
- 57.0% → 55.8%
- JKP share
- 0.0% → 33.2%
- Turnout
- 79.6% → 76.2%