Constituency
241. Raghunathpur
Community mirrorWest Bengal Assembly Election, 1987
WB-RAGHUNATHPUR
CPM 50.4%won by 16.2%INC 34.2%
What changed here
DerivedCommunist Party of India (Marxist) held the seat; the winning margin widened from 10.7% to 16.2%.
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 84.6% of the vote between them, up from 74.0% — 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
73,598
Margin
11,909
16.18%
Candidates
4 contested · winner CPM- 1NATABAR BAGDICommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM37,07650.4%
- 2GOPAL DASIndian National Congress · INC25,16734.2%
- 3BIJOY BOURISUC · SUC10,07613.7%
- 4KALA SONA BOURIIndependent · IND1,2791.7%
Since 1982
Derived- Winner then
- CPM
- Winner now
- CPM
- CPM–INC swing
- +5.5%
- CPM share
- 42.3% → 50.4%
- INC share
- 31.6% → 34.2%
- Turnout
- — → —