Constituency
16. Nagrakata
Community mirrorWest Bengal Assembly Election, 1987
WB-NAGRAKATA
CPM 53.3%won by 12.9%INC 40.4%
What changed here
DerivedCommunist Party of India (Marxist) held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 22.0% to 12.9%.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 7.7% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 93.7% between them, down from 100.0% — the field split more ways.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
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Turnout
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Valid votes
86,884
Margin
11,192
12.88%
Candidates
3 contested · winner CPM- 1SUKRA ORAONCommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM46,29053.3%
- 2BHADYA ORAONIndian National Congress · INC35,09840.4%
- 3DASARATH ORAONJanata Party · JNP5,4966.3%
Since 1982
Derived- Winner then
- CPM
- Winner now
- CPM
- CPM–INC swing
- −9.1%
- CPM share
- 61.0% → 53.3%
- INC share
- 39.0% → 40.4%
- Turnout
- — → —