Constituency
95. Basirhat
Community mirrorWest Bengal Assembly Election, 1987
WB-BASIRHAT
CPM 47.3%won by 6.8%INC 40.5%
What changed here
DerivedCommunist Party of India (Marxist) held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 9.0% to 6.8%.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 7.2% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
- New challengerIndian National Congress (INC) finished second with 40.5% — it did not contest here in 1982.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 87.8% between them, down from 100.0% — 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
1,05,956
Margin
7,221
6.82%
Candidates
4 contested · winner CPM- 1NARAYAN MUKHERJEECommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM50,14347.3%
- 2DILIP MAJUMDERIndian National Congress · INC42,92240.5%
- 3SARDAR ABDUL RASIDMUL · MUL12,67612.0%
- 4TARANI SINGHAIndependent · IND2150.2%
Since 1982
Derived- Winner then
- CPM
- Winner now
- CPM
- CPM–INC swing
- −47.7%
- CPM share
- 54.5% → 47.3%
- INC share
- 0.0% → 40.5%
- Turnout
- — → —