Constituency
144. Bara Bazar
Community mirrorWest Bengal Assembly Election, 1987
WB-BARA-BAZAR
INC 54.0%won by 38.7%IND 15.3%
What changed here
DerivedIndian National Congress held the seat; the winning margin widened from 25.8% to 38.7%.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 69.3% between them, down from 81.3% — the field split more ways.
- Safe seatIndian National Congress won by more than 25 points — a stronghold, not a contest.
- Multi-cornered4 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
42,401
Margin
16,413
38.71%
Candidates
17 contested · winner INC- 1RAJESH KHAITANIndian National Congress · INC22,90954.0%
- 2SHAUKAT RAHAMANIIndependent · IND6,49615.3%
- 3RATAN LAL AGARWALIndependent · IND5,53013.0%
- 4AGARWAL BHAGATRAMBharatiya Janata Party · BJP4,1929.9%
- 5RABI SHANKAR PANDAYIndependent · IND6841.6%
- 6DAYABATI SAXENAIndependent · IND6411.5%
- 7BINOY KUMAR TEWARILKD · LKD4441.0%
- 8BIMAL SINGH BENGANIIndependent · IND4111.0%
- 9KISHOR ZAVERYIndependent · IND2810.7%
- 10MD. AKHTARIndependent · IND2090.5%
- 11MANIRUDDINIndependent · IND1430.3%
- 12SURENDRA SHARMAIndependent · IND1370.3%
- 13BABAN SINGHIndependent · IND1150.3%
- 14SATYA NARAYAN BAJAJIndependent · IND930.2%
- 15LAL BAHADUR SINGHIndependent · IND760.2%
- 16SATYA NARAYAN SHARMAIndependent · IND250.1%
- 17MD. ELIYASIndependent · IND150.0%
Since 1982
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- INC
- INC–IND swing
- +12.9%
- INC share
- 53.6% → 54.0%
- IND share
- 27.8% → 15.3%
- Turnout
- — → —