Constituency
246. Ranibandh
Community mirrorWest Bengal Assembly Election, 1987
WB-RANIBANDH
CPM 56.5%won by 17.6%INC 38.9%
What changed here
DerivedCommunist Party of India (Marxist) held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 26.3% to 17.6%.
- New challengerIndian National Congress (INC) finished second with 38.9% — it did not contest here in 1982.
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 95.4% of the vote between them, up from 87.4% — 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
81,758
Margin
14,354
17.56%
Candidates
6 contested · winner CPM- 1RAMPADA MANDICommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM46,17256.5%
- 2CHANDRA MOHAN MURMUIndian National Congress · INC31,81838.9%
- 3JALESWAR SARENIndependent · IND1,7472.1%
- 4KANTIRAM SARENIndependent · IND1,5031.8%
- 5RAMKRISHNA MUDIIndependent · IND3870.5%
- 6SUKHADA HEMBRAMIndependent · IND1310.2%
Since 1982
Derived- Winner then
- CPM
- Winner now
- CPM
- CPM–INC swing
- −39.3%
- CPM share
- 56.9% → 56.5%
- INC share
- 0.0% → 38.9%
- Turnout
- — → —