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West Bengal Lok Sabha 1991

Results board · 42 constituencies

HouseLok Sabha
StateWest Bengal
Seats
42
Constituencies
Majority
22
Seats needed of 42
Electors
4.14Cr
On the roll
Votes polled
3.18Cr
76.7% of electors
Median turnout
77.3%
Median of 42 seats
CPI(M) lead
+5
Above majority · 27 − 22

[01]Seat matrix

42 seats · one dot per seat · ordered by seats won
Hemicycle of 42 seats: CPI(M) 27, INC 5, RSP 4, AIFB 3, CPI 3. Majority line at 22 seats. Hemicycle of 42 seats: CPI(M) 27, INC 5, RSP 4, AIFB 3, CPI 3. Majority line at 22 seats.
Majority · 22 of 42CPI(M) 27 · +5 above majority
CPI(M) 2764.3% Communist Party of India (Marxist)
INC 511.9% Indian National Congress
RSP 49.5% Revolutionary Socialist Party
AIFB 37.1% All India Forward Bloc
CPI 37.1% Communist Party of India

[02]Vote share

State level, as published
CPI(M) 35.2%27 seats · 64.3%
INC 34.9%5 seats · 11.9%
BJP 11.7%0 seats
RSP 4.5%4 seats · 9.5%
CPI 3.7%3 seats · 7.1%
Others 10.0%3 seats · 7.1%

Vote share not published

  • AIFB3 seats

The published shares sum to 100.0%, so these parties' votes sit inside Others.

Alliances

THIRD FRONT 48.1%37 seats
UPA 34.9%5 seats
NDA 11.7%0 seats
OTHERS 5.3%Seats not published

[03]Computed insights

Arithmetic · working shown

  1. CPI(M) converted 35.2% of votes into 64.3% of seats, a seat premium of 29.1 pp.

    27 ÷ 42 = 64.3% · 64.3 − 35.2 = +29.1

  2. INC polled 34.9% of votes, the 2nd-highest share, but won 5 seats (11.9%).

    5 ÷ 42 = 11.9% · 11.9 − 34.9 = −23.0

  3. Tamluk was decided by 1,062 votes, the closest of 42 seats; Bolpur had the widest margin, 2,26,624.

    min / max of margin over 42 seats with a recorded margin

  4. 3 seats were won by a margin under 1%; CPI(M) won 2 of them.

    count(margin % < 1.0) = 3 of 42 · CPI(M) 2

  5. In SC-reserved seats CPI(M) won 6 of 10 (60.0%), against 64.3% of all seats.

    6 ÷ 10 = 60.0% · 27 ÷ 42 = 64.3%

  6. Turnout ran from 58.1% in Calcutta North West to 84.9% in Cooch Behar; the median seat polled 77.3%.

    min / median / max over 42 seats with a recorded turnout

Each line is arithmetic over the figures on this page.

[04]Turnout

42 of 42 seats carry a turnout
025507510077.3%MEDIAN SEAT
< 50% 00.0% of seats
50–60 12.4% of seats
60–70 49.5% of seats
70–80 2354.8% of seats
≥ 80% 1433.3% of seats
  • LowestCalcutta North West58.1%
  • HighestCooch Behar84.9%
  • NOTANOTA did not exist before 2013Not recorded

[05]Every seat

42 rows · by constituency number
Constituency results, West Bengal Lok Sabha 1991, all 42 seats
# Constituency Winner Party Votes polled Margin Margin % Turnout %
01 Cooch BeharSC Amar Roy Pradhan All India Forward Bloc 8,33,066 1,32,232 15.9 84.9
02 AlipurduarsST Pius Tirkey Revolutionary Socialist Party 7,11,036 1,30,112 18.3 77.4
03 JalpaiguriSC Jitendra Nath Das Communist Party of India (Marxist) 7,43,975 1,14,356 15.4 78.4
04 Darjeeling Inder Jeet Indian National Congress 7,79,568 51,897 6.7 71.1
05 Raiganj Sybarta Mukerjee Communist Party of India (Marxist) 7,63,113 29,968 3.9 75.1
06 Balurghat Palas Barman Revolutionary Socialist Party 7,94,795 86,081 10.8 82.1
07 Malda Abdul Barkat Ataul Ghani Khan Choudhary Indian National Congress 7,22,873 1,820 0.3 78.4
08 Jangipur Abedin Zainal Communist Party of India (Marxist) 7,28,077 46,639 6.4 77.2
09 Murshidabad Masudal Hossain Syed Communist Party of India (Marxist) 8,06,098 1,12,601 14.0 81.0
10 Berhampore Nani Bhatacharyya Revolutionary Socialist Party 8,12,803 79,209 9.7 76.0
11 Krishnagar Ajoy Mukhopadhyay Communist Party of India (Marxist) 7,64,555 59,575 7.8 82.3
12 Nabadwip Asim Bala Communist Party of India (Marxist) 9,12,199 66,577 7.3 83.4
13 BarasatSC Chitta Basu All India Forward Bloc 8,93,572 44,421 5.0 83.1
14 BasirhatSC Monoranjan Sur Communist Party of India 7,74,768 71,642 9.2 84.3
15 Joynagar Sanat Kumar Mandal Revolutionary Socialist Party 7,54,350 1,32,305 17.5 78.9
16 Mathurapur Radhika Ranjan Pramanick Communist Party of India (Marxist) 7,37,795 19,746 2.7 81.7
17 Diamond Harbour Amal Dutta Communist Party of India (Marxist) 7,20,436 45,512 6.3 74.9
18 Jadavpur Malini Bhattacharya (W) Communist Party of India (Marxist) 8,67,072 50,301 5.8 73.9
19 BarrackporeSC Tarit Barban Topdar Communist Party of India (Marxist) 6,95,973 59,852 8.6 74.8
20 Dum DumSC Nirmal Kanti Chatterjee Communist Party of India (Marxist) 9,89,892 1,04,865 10.6 74.8
21 Calcutta North West Debi Prosad Pal Indian National Congress 4,09,564 31,819 7.8 58.1
22 Calcutta North East Ajit Kumar Panja Indian National Congress 5,73,443 71,456 12.5 66.8
23 Calcutta South Mamata Banerjee (W) Indian National Congress 7,14,395 93,663 13.1 68.5
24 Howrah Susanta Chakraborty S/o Sudhir Communist Party of India (Marxist) 8,01,451 7,380 0.9 68.7
25 Uluberia Hannan Mollah Communist Party of India (Marxist) 7,56,137 77,481 10.2 76.4
26 Serampore Sudarsan Roy Chowdhury Communist Party of India (Marxist) 8,10,618 44,497 5.5 72.3
27 Hooghly Rupchand Pal Communist Party of India (Marxist) 7,96,160 55,659 7.0 79.4
28 Arambagh Anil Basu Communist Party of India (Marxist) 8,10,177 1,48,272 18.3 82.9
29 PanskuraSC Gita Mukherjee (W) Communist Party of India 7,23,796 1,26,300 17.4 83.1
30 TamlukCLOSEST Satyagopal Misra Communist Party of India (Marxist) 7,73,742 1,062 0.1 82.3
31 Contai Sudhir Giri Communist Party of India (Marxist) 6,96,283 23,116 3.3 80.0
32 Midnapore Indrajit Gupta Communist Party of India 7,34,499 1,63,523 22.3 76.5
33 JhargramST Rupchand Murmu Communist Party of India (Marxist) 6,90,183 1,52,307 22.1 78.1
34 Purulia Chitta Ranjan Mahata All India Forward Bloc 6,72,089 1,25,940 18.7 73.5
35 Bankura Basudev Acharia Communist Party of India (Marxist) 6,82,903 1,82,623 26.7 72.5
36 Vishnupur Sukhendu Khan Communist Party of India (Marxist) 7,38,614 1,90,273 25.8 79.0
37 DurgapurSC Purna Chandra Malik Communist Party of India (Marxist) 7,67,870 1,84,616 24.0 73.8
38 AsansolSC Haradhan Roy Communist Party of India (Marxist) 7,22,290 94,858 13.1 64.1
39 Burdwan Sudhir Ray Communist Party of India (Marxist) 8,55,125 2,21,892 25.9 80.6
40 Katwa Saifuddin Chowdhry Communist Party of India (Marxist) 8,19,632 1,54,724 18.9 81.2
41 BolpurSCWIDEST Somnath Chatterjee Communist Party of India (Marxist) 7,13,844 2,26,624 31.7 77.2
42 Birbhum Dome Ramchandra Communist Party of India (Marxist) 6,92,508 1,63,031 23.5 75.2
Margin bar scaled to the widest margin, 2,26,624 votes

Seat resultsElection Commission of India, constituency-wise results · Lok Sabha 1991 · West Bengal · 42 seats · retrieval date not recorded in the results database

Vote share and alliancesState-level summary published with the same results · retrieval date not recorded in the results database

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