Constituency
242. Kashipur
Community mirrorWest Bengal Assembly Election, 1987
WB-KASHIPUR
CPM 56.9%won by 19.9%INC 37.0%
What changed here
DerivedCommunist Party of India (Marxist) held the seat; the winning margin widened from 12.3% to 19.9%.
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 94.0% of the vote between them, up from 88.9% — 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
71,517
Margin
14,206
19.86%
Candidates
5 contested · winner CPM- 1SURENDRA NATH MAJHICommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM40,70156.9%
- 2ANIL BARAN MURMUIndian National Congress · INC26,49537.0%
- 3NARYAN CHNDRA MURMUIndependent · IND2,4423.4%
- 4YUDHISTIR MAJHISUC · SUC1,3952.0%
- 5KRISHNA MAJHEEIndependent · IND4840.7%
Since 1982
Derived- Winner then
- CPM
- Winner now
- CPM
- CPM–INC swing
- +7.6%
- CPM share
- 50.6% → 56.9%
- INC share
- 38.3% → 37.0%
- Turnout
- — → —