Constituency
50. Farakka
Community mirrorWest Bengal Assembly Election, 1987
WB-FARAKKA
CPM 43.8%won by 11.3%INC 32.5%
What changed here
DerivedCommunist Party of India (Marxist) held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 19.9% to 11.3%.
- New challengerIndian National Congress (INC) finished second with 32.5% — it did not contest here in 1982.
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 76.4% of the vote between them, up from 69.1% — 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
80,319
Margin
9,104
11.33%
Candidates
5 contested · winner CPM- 1ABUL HASNAT KHANCommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM35,21643.8%
- 2MAINUL SHAIKHIndian National Congress · INC26,11232.5%
- 3SASTI CHARANBharatiya Janata Party · BJP10,23912.7%
- 4JERAT ALIIndependent · IND5,4716.8%
- 5MAULANA AZIZUR RAHMANMUL · MUL3,2814.1%
Since 1982
Derived- Winner then
- CPM
- Winner now
- CPM
- CPM–INC swing
- −33.1%
- CPM share
- 44.5% → 43.8%
- INC share
- 0.0% → 32.5%
- Turnout
- — → —