Constituency
230. Gopiballavpur
Community mirrorWest Bengal Assembly Election, 1987
WB-GOPIBALLAVPUR
CPM 57.4%won by 21.7%INC 35.6%
What changed here
DerivedCommunist Party of India (Marxist) held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 23.8% to 21.7%.
- Runner-up changedSecond place passed from Independent (IND) to Indian National Congress (INC).
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 93.0% of the vote between them, up from 77.7% — 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
92,875
Margin
20,178
21.73%
Candidates
8 contested · winner CPM- 1DE SUNILCommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM53,27657.4%
- 2BIJOY KUMAR SAHUIndian National Congress · INC33,09835.6%
- 3BHOLANATH MAHATAIndependent · IND3,0983.3%
- 4SUSIL MAHATAIndependent · IND2,7653.0%
- 5GOURHARI DASIndependent · IND3400.4%
- 6ALOK ADHIKARYIndependent · IND1710.2%
- 7HARI SANKAR MAHATAIndependent · IND690.1%
- 8ASHOK SENAPATIIndependent · IND580.1%
Since 1982
Derived- Winner then
- CPM
- Winner now
- CPM
- CPM–INC swing
- −6.9%
- CPM share
- 50.7% → 57.4%
- INC share
- 22.1% → 35.6%
- Turnout
- — → —