Constituency
231. Jhargram
Community mirrorWest Bengal Assembly Election, 1987
WB-JHARGRAM
CPM 50.3%won by 12.1%INC 38.1%
What changed here
DerivedCommunist Party of India (Marxist) held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 19.6% to 12.1%.
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 88.4% of the vote between them, up from 77.7% — a tighter two-way 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
94,594
Margin
11,490
12.15%
Candidates
7 contested · winner CPM- 1ABANI BHUSAN SATPATHICommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM47,55550.3%
- 2BHABESH MAHATAIndian National Congress · INC36,06538.1%
- 3MONORANJAN MAHATAIndependent · IND6,3856.7%
- 4BNOY MAHATAIndependent · IND2,9203.1%
- 5DHANANJOY BERAIndependent · IND1,0211.1%
- 6MADAN SAUIndependent · IND3650.4%
- 7RAMKRISHNA SARKARIndependent · IND2830.3%
Since 1982
Derived- Winner then
- CPM
- Winner now
- CPM
- CPM–INC swing
- −7.5%
- CPM share
- 48.7% → 50.3%
- INC share
- 29.1% → 38.1%
- Turnout
- — → —