Constituency
43. Ratua
Community mirrorWest Bengal Assembly Election, 1987
WB-RATUA
CPM 50.2%won by 21.6%INC 28.6%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Indian National Congress (INC) lost it to Communist Party of India (Marxist) (CPM), which now leads by 21.6%.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 78.8% between them, down from 100.0% — the field split more ways.
- Multi-cornered4 candidates cleared 5% — a genuinely multi-cornered fight.
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
79,152
Margin
17,123
21.63%
Candidates
4 contested · winner CPM- 1MUMTAZ BEGUMCommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM39,76050.2%
- 2NIREN CHANDRA SINHAIndian National Congress · INC22,63728.6%
- 3SOLAIMANMUL · MUL11,41414.4%
- 4SAMAR MUKHHERJEEIndependent · IND5,3416.7%
Since 1982
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- CPMflipped
- CPM–INC swing
- +22.3%
- CPM share
- 49.7% → 50.2%
- INC share
- 50.3% → 28.6%
- Turnout
- — → —