Constituency
222. Salbani
Community mirrorWest Bengal Assembly Election, 1987
WB-SALBANI
CPM 60.4%won by 31.1%INC 29.3%
What changed here
DerivedCommunist Party of India (Marxist) held the seat; the winning margin widened from 25.3% to 31.1%.
- Safe seatCommunist Party of India (Marxist) won by more than 25 points — a stronghold, not a contest.
- 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
81,369
Margin
25,271
31.06%
Candidates
6 contested · winner CPM- 1SUNDAR HAZRACommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM49,14460.4%
- 2BASANTI MAHATAIndian National Congress · INC23,87329.3%
- 3THANKURDAS MAHATAIndependent · IND7,1388.8%
- 4AJIT KUMAR KHANIndependent · IND5980.7%
- 5SASANKA PATRAIndependent · IND4710.6%
- 6JAGAT SAWIndependent · IND1450.2%
Since 1982
Derived- Winner then
- CPM
- Winner now
- CPM
- CPM–INC swing
- +5.7%
- CPM share
- 56.8% → 60.4%
- INC share
- 31.5% → 29.3%
- Turnout
- — → —