Constituency
75. Krishnagar East
Community mirrorWest Bengal Assembly Election, 1987
WB-KRISHNAGAR-EAST
CPM 47.7%won by 2.3%INC 45.4%
What changed here
DerivedCommunist Party of India (Marxist) held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 14.3% to 2.3%.
- Runner-up changedSecond place passed from Janata Party (JNP) to Indian National Congress (INC).
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 93.2% of the vote between them, up from 73.1% — 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
85,440
Margin
1,942
2.27%
Candidates
6 contested · winner CPM- 1SADHAN CHATTOPADHYAYCommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM40,76947.7%
- 2SIBDAS MUKHERJEEIndian National Congress · INC38,82745.4%
- 3AMAL TARAFDARIndependent · IND2,6533.1%
- 4BISWARUP MUKHOPADHYAYIndependent · IND2,3502.8%
- 5VIVIEKNANDA BISWASIndependent · IND4290.5%
- 6DURGADAS BARALIndependent · IND4120.5%
Since 1982
Derived- Winner then
- CPM
- Winner now
- CPM
- CPM–INC swing
- −15.4%
- CPM share
- 43.7% → 47.7%
- INC share
- 26.1% → 45.4%
- Turnout
- — → —