Constituency
71. Nakashipara
Community mirrorWest Bengal Assembly Election, 1987
WB-NAKASHIPARA
CPM 40.7%won by 9.8%INC 30.9%
What changed here
DerivedCommunist Party of India (Marxist) held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 11.6% to 9.8%.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 12.2% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 71.6% between them, down from 94.3% — 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
85,275
Margin
8,389
9.84%
Candidates
7 contested · winner CPM- 1SINHA SANTOSH KUMARCommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM34,72140.7%
- 2KALLON KHANIndian National Congress · INC26,33230.9%
- 3MIR FAKIR MOHAMMEDIndependent · IND20,57424.1%
- 4DILIP CHUNARIIndependent · IND1,7552.1%
- 5SHAIKH KURBAN ALISUC · SUC1,1241.3%
- 6NIL KAMAL SARKARIndependent · IND4610.5%
- 7NIRAPADA BISWASIndependent · IND3080.4%
Since 1982
Derived- Winner then
- CPM
- Winner now
- CPM
- CPM–INC swing
- −1.7%
- CPM share
- 53.0% → 40.7%
- INC share
- 41.4% → 30.9%
- Turnout
- — → —