Election
Constituency

236. Arsa

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West Bengal Assembly Election, 1987

WB-ARSA

FBL 51.0%won by 10.6%INC 40.4%

What changed here

Derived

FBL held the seat; the winning margin widened from 1.5% to 10.6%.

  • Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 91.4% of the vote between them, up from 65.7% — a tighter two-way contest.

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

Electorate
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not in source
Turnout
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not in source
Valid votes
81,709
Margin
8,676
10.62%

Candidates

7 contested · winner FBL
  1. 1KUMAR PANDABFBL · FBL41,67251.0%
  2. 2SINGH DEO K.P.Indian National Congress · INC32,99640.4%
  3. 3KUMAR SUBARNASUC · SUC2,7433.4%
  4. 4AJIT PRASAD MAHATAIndependent · IND2,7013.3%
  5. 5RAMESH CHANDRA MAHATAIndependent · IND7440.9%
  6. 6SARIT KUMAR CHAKRABARTYIndependent · IND4590.6%
  7. 7CHANDRA MOHAN MAHATAIndependent · IND3940.5%

Since 1982

Derived
Winner then
FBL
Winner now
FBL
FBL–INC swing
+9.1%
FBL share
33.6% → 51.0%
INC share
32.1% → 40.4%
Turnout
— → —
235. Balrampur237. Jhalda
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