Constituency
70. Palashipara
Community mirrorWest Bengal Assembly Election, 1987
WB-PALASHIPARA
CPM 51.5%won by 15.5%INC 36.0%
What changed here
DerivedCommunist Party of India (Marxist) held the seat; the winning margin widened from 5.5% to 15.5%.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 87.5% between them, down from 94.3% — the field split more ways.
- Multi-cornered3 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
91,799
Margin
14,198
15.47%
Candidates
9 contested · winner CPM- 1MADHABENDU MOHANTACommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM47,27551.5%
- 2KUMARESH CHANDRA BISWASIndian National Congress · INC33,07736.0%
- 3KHADA RAY SHAIKHSUC · SUC7,6668.4%
- 4AGARWALA BISWANATHIndependent · IND2,1032.3%
- 5ALI MOULANA JABERMUL · MUL8280.9%
- 6HALADHAR PRAMANICKIndependent · IND2810.3%
- 7SK. ABDUL KUDDUSIndependent · IND2660.3%
- 8RANJIT KUMAR BASUIndependent · IND1610.2%
- 9PARESH ROYIndependent · IND1420.2%
Since 1982
Derived- Winner then
- CPM
- Winner now
- CPM
- CPM–INC swing
- +9.9%
- CPM share
- 49.9% → 51.5%
- INC share
- 44.4% → 36.0%
- Turnout
- — → —