Constituency
211. Contai South
Community mirrorWest Bengal Assembly Election, 1987
WB-CONTAI-SOUTH
CPI 48.6%won by 4.7%INC 43.9%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Indian National Congress (INC) lost it to Communist Party of India (CPI), which now leads by 4.7%.
- CPI vote shareCPI went from 6.5% to 48.6% of the vote here (+42.1%).
- 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
77,331
Margin
3,654
4.73%
Candidates
8 contested · winner CPI- 1SUKHENDU MAITICommunist Party of India · CPI37,57048.6%
- 2SAILJA KUMAR DASIndian National Congress · INC33,91643.9%
- 3ADHIKARI SISIRIndependent · IND4,4775.8%
- 4MRINAL KANTI PANDABharatiya Janata Party · BJP6010.8%
- 5PARITOSH DASIndependent · IND2410.3%
- 6BIMAL PRADHANIndependent · IND2100.3%
- 7SANTOSH KUMAR RANAIndependent · IND1870.2%
- 8KUNAL DASIndependent · IND1290.2%
Since 1982
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- CPIflipped
- CPI–INC swing
- +54.1%
- CPI share
- 6.5% → 48.6%
- INC share
- 55.8% → 43.9%
- Turnout
- — → —