Constituency
48. Suzapur
Community mirrorWest Bengal Assembly Election, 1987
WB-SUZAPUR
INC 44.9%won by 5.6%CPM 39.2%
What changed here
DerivedIndian National Congress held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 27.2% to 5.6%.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 18.0% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 84.1% between them, down from 98.5% — 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
74,767
Margin
4,206
5.63%
Candidates
4 contested · winner INC- 1HUMAYOUN CHOWDHURYIndian National Congress · INC33,55144.9%
- 2KOWSAR ALICommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM29,34539.2%
- 3ABDUL QUDDUSMUL · MUL10,05913.5%
- 4JAHANGIRIndependent · IND1,8122.4%
Since 1982
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- INC
- INC–CPM swing
- −21.6%
- INC share
- 62.9% → 44.9%
- CPM share
- 35.7% → 39.2%
- Turnout
- — → —