Constituency
118. Falta
Community mirrorWest Bengal Assembly Election, 1987
WB-FALTA
CPM 54.9%won by 20.5%INC 34.4%
What changed here
DerivedCommunist Party of India (Marxist) held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 26.9% to 20.5%.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 7.8% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 89.3% between them, down from 98.5% — 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
78,453
Margin
16,111
20.54%
Candidates
4 contested · winner CPM- 1ARTI DAS GUPTACommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM43,08454.9%
- 2DINABANDHU HALDERIndian National Congress · INC26,97334.4%
- 3ASRAF ALIIndependent · IND8,24610.5%
- 4ABDUL HAI LASKARMUL · MUL1500.2%
Since 1982
Derived- Winner then
- CPM
- Winner now
- CPM
- CPM–INC swing
- −6.3%
- CPM share
- 62.7% → 54.9%
- INC share
- 35.8% → 34.4%
- Turnout
- — → —