1991
19891984198019771971196719621957Total Constituencies: 42
West Bengal Lok Sabha Election 1991 covered all 42 parliamentary constituencies in the state. The CPM received the highest statewide vote share at 35.19% and won 27 seats, while the INC received 34.86% of the vote and won 5 seats. The BJP won 0 seats with 11.66% of the vote.
The table below shows party-wise results based on total votes received across West Bengal.
| Party Name | Seats Contested | Seats Won | Vote Share | Vote Share on Contested | Total Votes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CPM | 30 | 27 | 35.19% | 48.44% | 1,09,34,583 |
| 39 | 5 | 34.86% | 37.49% | 1,08,34,675 | |
| 42 | 0 | 11.66% | 11.66% | 36,24,974 | |
| 4 | 4 | 4.51% | 46.76% | 14,02,615 | |
| 3 | 3 | 3.69% | 52.16% | 11,45,564 | |
| FBL | 3 | 3 | 3.65% | 48.22% | 11,33,038 |
| Constituency | Winner | Runner-up | Margin | Margin(%) | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Candidate | Party | Votes | Candidate | Party | Votes | |||
| Cooch Behar (Sc) | Amar Roy Pradhan | FBL | 4,14,037 | Sabita Ray (W) | INC | 2,81,805 | 1,32,232 | 16.14 |
| Alipurduars (St) | Pius Tirkey | RSP | 3,65,370 | Philip Minj | INC | 2,35,258 | 1,30,112 | 18.81 |
| Jalpaiguri | Jitendra Nath Das | CPM | 3,64,285 | Tushar Kanti Choudhuri | INC | 2,49,929 | 1,14,356 | 15.74 |
| Darjeeling | Inder Jeet | INC | 3,54,645 | Ananda Pathak | CPM | 3,02,748 | 51,897 | 7.03 |
| Raiganj | Sybarta Mukerjee | CPM | 3,10,167 | Golam Yazdani | INC | 2,80,199 | 29,968 | 4.05 |
| Balurghat (Sc) | Palas Barman | RSP | 3,53,159 | Rasendra Nath Barman | INC | 2,67,078 | 86,081 | 11.05 |
| Malda | Abdul Barkat Ataul Ghani Khan Choudhary | INC | 2,91,835 | Sailen Sarkar | CPM | 2,90,015 | 1,820 | 0.25 |
| Jangipur | Abedin Zainal | CPM | 3,03,254 | Mannan Hossain | INC | 2,56,615 | 46,639 | 6.56 |
| Murshidabad | Masudal Hossain Syed | CPM | 3,82,003 | Ali Hossain Mondal | INC | 2,69,402 | 1,12,601 | 14.26 |
| Berhampore | Nani Bhatacharyya | RSP | 3,45,678 | Kumar Dipti Sengupta | INC | 2,66,469 | 79,209 | 9.98 |
| Krishnagar | Ajoy Mukhopadhyay | CPM | 3,24,508 | Jyotirmoy Bhattacharjee (Nitu) | INC | 2,64,933 | 59,575 | 7.96 |
| Nabadwip (Sc) | Asim Bala | CPM | 4,18,374 | Apuurbalal Majumdar | INC | 3,51,797 | 66,577 | 7.42 |
| Barasat | Chitta Basu | FBL | 3,82,896 | Ashok Krishna Dutt | INC | 3,38,475 | 44,421 | 5.06 |
| Basirhat | Monoranjan Sur | CPI | 3,57,774 | Sardar Amjad Ali | INC | 2,86,132 | 71,642 | 9.42 |
| Joynagar (Sc) | Sanat Kumar Mandal | RSP | 3,38,408 | Naraiyan Naskar | INC | 2,06,103 | 1,32,305 | 17.99 |
| Mathurapur (Sc) | Radhika Ranjan Pramanick | CPM | 3,42,708 | Monoranjan Haldher | INC | 3,22,962 | 19,746 | 2.72 |
| Diamond Harbour | Amal Dutta | CPM | 3,38,884 | Maya Ghosh (W) | INC | 2,93,372 | 45,512 | 6.46 |
| Jadavpur | Malini Bhattacharya (W) | CPM | 3,98,896 | Santosh Bhattacharya | INC | 3,48,595 | 50,301 | 5.9 |
| Barrackpore | Tarit Barban Topdar | CPM | 3,24,025 | Devi Ghoshal | INC | 2,64,173 | 59,852 | 8.78 |
| Dum Dum | Nirmal Kanti Chatterjee | CPM | 4,46,564 | Lal Bahadur Singh | INC | 3,41,699 | 1,04,865 | 10.83 |
| Calcutta North West | Debi Prosad Pal | INC | 1,66,227 | Dilip Chakravarty | JD | 1,34,408 | 31,819 | 7.92 |
| Calcutta North East | Ajit Kumar Panja | INC | 2,76,399 | Pratap Chandra | JD | 2,04,943 | 71,456 | 12.8 |
| Calcutta South | Mamata Banerjee (W) | INC | 3,67,896 | Biplab Das Gupta | CPM | 2,74,233 | 93,663 | 13.36 |
| Howrah | Susanta Chakraborty S/O Sudhir | CPM | 3,51,744 | Priya Ranjan Das Munshi | INC | 3,44,364 | 7,380 | 0.94 |
| Uluberia | Hannan Mollah | CPM | 3,71,955 | Minati Adhikari (W) | INC | 2,94,474 | 77,481 | 10.44 |
| Serampore | Sudarsan Roy Chowdhury | CPM | 3,66,535 | Bimalkanti Ghosh | INC | 3,22,038 | 44,497 | 5.61 |
| Hooghly | Rupchand Pal | CPM | 3,83,238 | Umasnkar Halder | INC | 3,27,579 | 55,659 | 7.12 |
| Arambagh | Anil Basu | CPM | 4,48,318 | Sk. Hasan Imam | INC | 3,00,046 | 1,48,272 | 18.61 |
| Panskura | Gita Mukherjee (W) | CPI | 3,91,509 | Sudhanshu Bhowmik | INC | 2,65,209 | 1,26,300 | 17.73 |
| Tamluk | Satyagopal Misra | CPM | 3,52,139 | Jayanta Bhattacharya | INC | 3,51,077 | 1,062 | 0.14 |
| Contai | Sudhir Giri | CPM | 3,23,390 | Abha Maiti (W) | INC | 3,00,274 | 23,116 | 3.38 |
| Midnapore | Indrajit Gupta | CPI | 3,96,281 | Birendra Bijoy Malladev | INC | 2,32,758 | 1,63,523 | 22.62 |
| Jhargram (St) | Rupchand Murmu | CPM | 3,75,760 | Amiya Kisku | JKP | 2,23,453 | 1,52,307 | 22.61 |
| Purulia | Chitta Ranjan Mahata | FBL | 3,36,105 | Sanat Mukherjee | INC | 2,10,165 | 1,25,940 | 19.31 |
| Bankura | Basudev Acharia | CPM | 3,74,058 | Brajabasi Biswas | INC | 1,91,435 | 1,82,623 | 27.5 |
| Vishnupur (Sc) | Sukhendu Khan | CPM | 4,22,385 | Sadhan Majhi | INC | 2,32,112 | 1,90,273 | 26.39 |
| Durgapur (Sc) | Purna Chandra Malik | CPM | 4,15,011 | Bhagabat Maji | INC | 2,30,395 | 1,84,616 | 24.62 |
| Asansol | Haradhan Roy | CPM | 3,16,504 | Deba Prasad Roy | INC | 2,21,646 | 94,858 | 13.52 |
| Burdwan | Sudhir Ray | CPM | 4,79,721 | Asit Baran Patra | INC | 2,57,829 | 2,21,892 | 26.37 |
| Katwa | Saifuddin Chowdhry | CPM | 4,04,358 | Nurul Islam | IND | 2,49,634 | 1,54,724 | 19.22 |
| Bolpur | Chatterjee Somnath | CPM | 3,94,496 | Jivan Mukhopadhyay | IND | 1,67,872 | 2,26,624 | 32.54 |
| Birbhum (Sc) | Dome Ramchandra | CPM | 3,34,307 | Subhendu Mondal | INC | 1,71,276 | 1,63,031 | 24.24 |
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