Constituency
17. Mainaguri
Community mirrorWest Bengal Assembly Election, 1987
WB-MAINAGURI
RSP 52.4%won by 11.9%INC 40.5%
What changed here
DerivedRashtriya Sarvajan Party held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 13.2% to 11.9%.
- New challengerIndian National Congress (INC) finished second with 40.5% — it did not contest here in 1982.
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
80,549
Margin
9,549
11.85%
Candidates
7 contested · winner RSP- 1TARAK BANDHU ROYRashtriya Sarvajan Party · RSP42,18152.4%
- 2MANMATHA ROY BASUNIAIndian National Congress · INC32,63240.5%
- 3SHYAMAL BASUNIAIndependent · IND2,8423.5%
- 4BHABEN BURMANIndependent · IND1,1941.5%
- 5ATUL ROYIndependent · IND8471.1%
- 6BIJAY KRISHNA MOHANTAIndependent · IND5400.7%
- 7SANAT CHANDRA ROYIndependent · IND3130.4%
Since 1982
Derived- Winner then
- RSP
- Winner now
- RSP
- RSP–INC swing
- −41.7%
- RSP share
- 53.6% → 52.4%
- INC share
- 0.0% → 40.5%
- Turnout
- — → —