Constituency
30. Karandighi
Community mirrorWest Bengal Assembly Election, 1987
WB-KARANDIGHI
FBL 45.1%won by 7.8%IND 37.3%
What changed here
DerivedFBL held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 12.1% to 7.8%.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 9.9% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
- New challengerIndependent (IND) finished second with 37.3% — it polled just 0.6% in 1982.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 82.4% between them, down from 97.8% — 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
83,629
Margin
6,507
7.78%
Candidates
8 contested · winner FBL- 1SURESH CHANDRA SINGHAFBL · FBL37,72045.1%
- 2HAJI SAJJAD HOSSAINIndependent · IND31,21337.3%
- 3CHOWDHURY RATAN KUMARIndian National Congress · INC11,75614.1%
- 4MD. FARUQUE ADILMUL · MUL1,3251.6%
- 5NABA KUMAR SINGHAIndependent · IND7800.9%
- 6AMARENDRA NATH SINGHABharatiya Janata Party · BJP5610.7%
- 7KAMAL GUHAIndependent · IND1660.2%
- 8HASIBUR RAHAMANIndependent · IND1080.1%
Since 1982
Derived- Winner then
- FBL
- Winner now
- FBL
- FBL–IND swing
- −46.6%
- FBL share
- 55.0% → 45.1%
- IND share
- 0.6% → 37.3%
- Turnout
- — → —