Constituency
221. Garhbeta West
Community mirrorWest Bengal Assembly Election, 1987
WB-GARHBETA-WEST
CPM 57.6%won by 17.6%INC 40.0%
What changed here
DerivedCommunist Party of India (Marxist) held the seat; the winning margin widened from 14.4% to 17.6%.
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 97.6% of the vote between them, up from 92.5% — 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
88,168
Margin
15,534
17.62%
Candidates
3 contested · winner CPM- 1KRISHNAPRASAD DULEYCommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM50,80857.6%
- 2KINKAR RUINDASIndian National Congress · INC35,27440.0%
- 3AJIT DULEYIndependent · IND2,0862.4%
Since 1982
Derived- Winner then
- CPM
- Winner now
- CPM
- CPM–INC swing
- +3.3%
- CPM share
- 53.4% → 57.6%
- INC share
- 39.1% → 40.0%
- Turnout
- — → —