Constituency
116. Budge Budge
Community mirrorWest Bengal Assembly Election, 1987
WB-BUDGE-BUDGE
CPM 48.9%won by 2.6%INC 46.3%
What changed here
DerivedCommunist Party of India (Marxist) held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 24.6% to 2.6%.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 12.5% — 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
88,696
Margin
2,324
2.62%
Candidates
5 contested · winner CPMSince 1982
Derived- Winner then
- CPM
- Winner now
- CPM
- CPM–INC swing
- −22.0%
- CPM share
- 61.4% → 48.9%
- INC share
- 36.8% → 46.3%
- Turnout
- — → —