Constituency
105. Canning West
Community mirrorWest Bengal Assembly Election, 1987
WB-CANNING-WEST
INC 45.6%won by 0.5%CPM 45.1%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Communist Party of India (Marxist) (CPM) lost it to Indian National Congress (INC), which now leads by 0.5%.
- INC vote shareINC went from 42.2% to 45.6% of the vote here (+3.4%).
- Knife-edgeDecided by 506 votes (0.52%) — among the closest results anywhere.
- Multi-cornered3 candidates cleared 5% — a genuinely multi-cornered fight.
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
97,274
Margin
506
0.52%
Candidates
5 contested · winner INCSince 1982
Derived- Winner then
- CPM
- Winner now
- INCflipped
- INC–CPM swing
- +3.7%
- INC share
- 42.2% → 45.6%
- CPM share
- 45.4% → 45.1%
- Turnout
- — → —