Constituency
135. Panihati
Community mirrorWest Bengal Assembly Election, 1987
WB-PANIHATI
CPM 47.4%won by 1.3%INC 46.1%
What changed here
DerivedCommunist Party of India (Marxist) held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 15.3% to 1.3%.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 8.3% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
- 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
1,09,396
Margin
1,398
1.28%
Candidates
5 contested · winner CPMSince 1982
Derived- Winner then
- CPM
- Winner now
- CPM
- CPM–INC swing
- −14.1%
- CPM share
- 55.7% → 47.4%
- INC share
- 40.4% → 46.1%
- Turnout
- — → —