Constituency
516. Durgapur
Community mirrorWest Bengal · India Lok Sabha Election, 1991
IN-DURGAPUR
CPM 55.3%won by 24.6%INC 30.7%
What changed here
DerivedCommunist Party of India (Marxist) held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 36.8% to 24.6%.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 10.3% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 86.1% between them, down from 94.6% — the field split more ways.
- TurnoutTurnout rose 2.1% to 72.0%.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
10,41,160
Turnout
72.0%
Valid votes
7,49,796
Margin
1,84,616
24.62%
Candidates
7 contested · winner CPM- 1PURNA CHANDRA MALIKCommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM4,15,01155.3%
- 2BHAGABAT MAJIIndian National Congress · INC2,30,39530.7%
- 3BYOM SNAKAR RUIDASBharatiya Janata Party · BJP85,80611.4%
- 4PRAFULLA KR. MONDALJharkhand Mukti Morcha · JMM5,9900.8%
- 5ASIT MONDALIndependent · IND5,4080.7%
- 6BHAKTA DAS MONDALBahujan Samaj Party · BSP4,8350.6%
- 7DEBABRATA BAGDDP · DDP2,3510.3%
Since 1989
Derived- Winner then
- CPM
- Winner now
- CPM
- CPM–INC swing
- −12.2%
- CPM share
- 65.7% → 55.3%
- INC share
- 28.9% → 30.7%
- Turnout
- 69.9% → 72.0%