Constituency
185. Tarakeswar
Community mirrorWest Bengal Assembly Election, 1987
WB-TARAKESWAR
IND 57.9%won by 17.2%INC 40.7%
What changed here
DerivedIndependent held the seat; the winning margin widened from 10.7% to 17.2%.
- New challengerIndian National Congress (INC) finished second with 40.7% — it did not contest here in 1982.
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 98.6% of the vote between them, up from 79.5% — a tighter two-way 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
85,099
Margin
14,618
17.18%
Candidates
5 contested · winner IND- 1SANTI CHATTERJEEIndependent · IND49,25357.9%
- 2BALAI LAL SHETHIndian National Congress · INC34,63540.7%
- 3SHYAM LAL ACHARYAIndependent · IND7780.9%
- 4ASHIM KUMAR PAULBharatiya Janata Party · BJP3330.4%
- 5TARAK CH. SAUIndependent · IND1000.1%
Since 1982
Derived- Winner then
- IND
- Winner now
- IND
- IND–INC swing
- −27.9%
- IND share
- 45.1% → 57.9%
- INC share
- 0.0% → 40.7%
- Turnout
- — → —