Constituency
517. Asansol
Community mirrorWest Bengal · India Lok Sabha Election, 1991
IN-ASANSOL
CPM 45.1%won by 13.5%INC 31.6%
What changed here
DerivedCommunist Party of India (Marxist) held the seat; the winning margin widened from 5.6% to 13.5%.
- 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 76.7% between them, down from 93.6% — the field split more ways.
- TurnoutTurnout fell 6.1% to 62.3%.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
11,26,207
Turnout
62.3%
Valid votes
7,01,240
Margin
94,858
13.53%
Candidates
14 contested · winner CPM- 1HARADHAN ROYCommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM3,16,50445.1%
- 2DEBA PRASAD ROYIndian National Congress · INC2,21,64631.6%
- 3KINKAR TAPANANDA BRAHMACHARIBharatiya Janata Party · BJP1,35,64119.3%
- 4BALAHARI MONDALCommunist Party of India (Marxist-Leninist) (Liberation) · CPIML5,7390.8%
- 5JARASANDHA BOURIBahujan Samaj Party · BSP5,6000.8%
- 6MIHIR UPADHYAYJanahitha Paksha · JP4,5660.7%
- 7MANIK CHATTERJEEIndependent · IND3,3520.5%
- 8MD. BODRADOJAIndependent · IND1,6950.2%
- 9RAJ NATH KURMIDDP · DDP1,5420.2%
- 10DURGADAS MONDALIndependent · IND1,4590.2%
- 11BIKASH CHANDRA GHOSHIndependent · IND1,0090.1%
- 12ASIS RANNJAN SARKARIndependent · IND8780.1%
- 13DEBIDAS MUKHERJEEIndependent · IND8430.1%
- 14SUBRATA MITRAIndependent · IND7660.1%
Since 1989
Derived- Winner then
- CPM
- Winner now
- CPM
- CPM–INC swing
- +7.9%
- CPM share
- 49.6% → 45.1%
- INC share
- 44.0% → 31.6%
- Turnout
- 68.3% → 62.3%