Constituency
22. Kalimpong
Community mirrorWest Bengal Assembly Election, 1987
WB-KALIMPONG
CPI 91.6%won by 84.3%INC 7.3%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Independent (IND) lost it to Communist Party of India (CPI), which now leads by 84.3%.
- CPI vote shareCPI went from 18.7% to 91.6% of the vote here (+72.9%).
- New challengerIndian National Congress (INC) finished second with 7.3% — it did not contest here in 1982.
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 99.0% of the vote between them, up from 74.0% — a tighter two-way contest.
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
1,052
Margin
887
84.32%
Candidates
3 contested · winner CPISince 1982
Derived- Winner then
- IND
- Winner now
- CPIflipped
- CPI–INC swing
- +65.6%
- CPI share
- 18.7% → 91.6%
- INC share
- 0.0% → 7.3%
- Turnout
- — → —