Constituency
82. Chakdaha
Community mirrorWest Bengal Assembly Election, 1987
WB-CHAKDAHA
CPM 56.9%won by 16.8%INC 40.1%
What changed here
DerivedCommunist Party of India (Marxist) held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 22.7% to 16.8%.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 3.4% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
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
1,18,828
Margin
19,932
16.77%
Candidates
4 contested · winner CPM- 1SUBHASH BASUCommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM67,63256.9%
- 2SANTANU BHOWAMIKIndian National Congress · INC47,70040.1%
- 3BINOY BISWASIndependent · IND3,3112.8%
- 4GOURI SHANKAR DASIndependent · IND1850.2%
Since 1982
Derived- Winner then
- CPM
- Winner now
- CPM
- CPM–INC swing
- −5.9%
- CPM share
- 60.3% → 56.9%
- INC share
- 37.6% → 40.1%
- Turnout
- — → —