Constituency
28. Islampur
Community mirrorWest Bengal Assembly Election, 1987
WB-ISLAMPUR
CPM 49.0%won by 1.3%INC 47.7%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Indian National Congress (INC) lost it to Communist Party of India (Marxist) (CPM), which now leads by 1.3%.
- CPM vote shareCPM went from 37.4% to 49.0% of the vote here (+11.6%).
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 96.7% of the vote between them, up from 86.0% — 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
73,906
Margin
945
1.28%
Candidates
5 contested · winner CPMSince 1982
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- CPMflipped
- CPM–INC swing
- +12.5%
- CPM share
- 37.4% → 49.0%
- INC share
- 48.6% → 47.7%
- Turnout
- — → —