Constituency
156. Sealdah
Community mirrorWest Bengal Assembly Election, 1987
WB-SEALDAH
INC 65.7%won by 32.3%CPI 33.4%
What changed here
DerivedIndian National Congress held the seat; the winning margin widened from 15.5% to 32.3%.
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 99.1% of the vote between them, up from 90.7% — a tighter two-way contest.
- Safe seatIndian National Congress won by more than 25 points — a stronghold, not a contest.
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
48,565
Margin
15,689
32.31%
Candidates
4 contested · winner INCSince 1982
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- INC
- INC–CPI swing
- +16.8%
- INC share
- 53.1% → 65.7%
- CPI share
- 37.6% → 33.4%
- Turnout
- — → —