Constituency
74. Krishnaganj
Community mirrorWest Bengal Assembly Election, 1987
WB-KRISHNAGANJ
CPM 60.0%won by 27.3%INC 32.6%
What changed here
DerivedCommunist Party of India (Marxist) held the seat; the winning margin widened from 1.5% to 27.3%.
- Safe seatCommunist Party of India (Marxist) won by more than 25 points — a stronghold, not a 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
79,988
Margin
21,858
27.33%
Candidates
7 contested · winner CPM- 1NAYAN CHANDRA SARKARCommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM47,95760.0%
- 2MRINAL KANTI BISWASIndian National Congress · INC26,09932.6%
- 3SRIPATI RANJAN CHAUDHURYIndependent · IND1,9962.5%
- 4SUPRAWAT BISWASBharatiya Janata Party · BJP1,9112.4%
- 5BALEN HALDERIndependent · IND1,1401.4%
- 6BIKASH BISWASIndependent · IND6830.9%
- 7ARUN MANDALIndependent · IND2020.3%
Since 1982
Derived- Winner then
- CPM
- Winner now
- CPM
- CPM–INC swing
- +25.8%
- CPM share
- 48.6% → 60.0%
- INC share
- 47.1% → 32.6%
- Turnout
- — → —