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Constituency

234. Manbazar

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West Bengal Assembly Election, 1987

WB-MANBAZAR

CPM 52.6%won by 6.3%INC 46.4%

What changed here

Derived

Communist Party of India (Marxist) held the seat; the winning margin widened from 1.7% to 6.3%.

  • Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 99.0% of the vote between them, up from 90.1% — a tighter two-way contest.

Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.

Electorate
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not in source
Turnout
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not in source
Valid votes
92,474
Margin
5,791
6.26%

Candidates

4 contested · winner CPM
  1. 1KAMALAKANTA MAHATACommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM48,67652.6%
  2. 2SITARAM MAHATOIndian National Congress · INC42,88546.4%
  3. 3DASARATHA MAHATOIndependent · IND5580.6%
  4. 4SUKUMAR DASIndependent · IND3550.4%

Since 1982

Derived
Winner then
CPM
Winner now
CPM
CPM–INC swing
+4.6%
CPM share
45.9% → 52.6%
INC share
44.2% → 46.4%
Turnout
— → —
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