Constituency
515. Vishnupur
Community mirrorWest Bengal · India Lok Sabha Election, 1991
IN-VISHNUPUR
CPM 58.6%won by 26.4%INC 32.2%
What changed here
DerivedCommunist Party of India (Marxist) held the seat; the winning margin widened from 25.6% to 26.4%.
- TurnoutTurnout fell 3.7% to 77.1%.
- Safe seatCommunist Party of India (Marxist) won by more than 25 points — a stronghold, not a contest.
- Multi-cornered3 candidates cleared 5% — a genuinely multi-cornered fight.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
9,35,084
Turnout
77.1%
Valid votes
7,21,211
Margin
1,90,273
26.38%
Candidates
5 contested · winner CPM- 1SUKHENDU KHANCommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM4,22,38558.6%
- 2SADHAN MAJHIIndian National Congress · INC2,32,11232.2%
- 3PROVAKAR MONDALBharatiya Janata Party · BJP58,5558.1%
- 4GADADHAR DULEYIndependent · IND6,1850.9%
- 5RABINDRA NATH BAGDDP · DDP1,9740.3%
Since 1989
Derived- Winner then
- CPM
- Winner now
- CPM
- CPM–INC swing
- +0.8%
- CPM share
- 59.8% → 58.6%
- INC share
- 34.2% → 32.2%
- Turnout
- 80.8% → 77.1%