Constituency
34. Itahar
Community mirrorWest Bengal Assembly Election, 1987
WB-ITAHAR
CPI 52.1%won by 5.0%INC 47.1%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: ICS (ICS) lost it to Communist Party of India (CPI), which now leads by 5.0%.
- CPI vote shareCPI went from 44.2% to 52.1% of the vote here (+7.9%).
- New challengerIndian National Congress (INC) finished second with 47.1% — 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
91,308
Margin
4,521
4.95%
Candidates
3 contested · winner CPI- 1SWADESH CHAKICommunist Party of India · CPI47,54252.1%
- 2ABEDIN ZAINALIndian National Congress · INC43,02147.1%
- 3JITENDRA NATH SARKARLKD · LKD7450.8%
Since 1982
Derived- Winner then
- ICS
- Winner now
- CPIflipped
- CPI–INC swing
- −39.2%
- CPI share
- 44.2% → 52.1%
- INC share
- 0.0% → 47.1%
- Turnout
- — → —