Constituency
281. Mangalkot
Community mirrorWest Bengal Assembly Election, 1987
WB-MANGALKOT
CPM 63.3%won by 32.8%INC 30.5%
What changed here
DerivedCommunist Party of India (Marxist) held the seat; the winning margin widened from 25.2% to 32.8%.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 93.8% between them, down from 99.2% — the field split more ways.
- Safe seatCommunist Party of India (Marxist) won by more than 25 points — a stronghold, not a 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
89,786
Margin
29,490
32.84%
Candidates
4 contested · winner CPM- 1NIKHILANANDA SARCommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM56,86063.3%
- 2JAGADISH DATTAIndian National Congress · INC27,37030.5%
- 3ASHOK KUMAR MALLIKIndependent · IND4,8035.3%
- 4SYED IMDAD ALIIndependent · IND7530.8%
Since 1982
Derived- Winner then
- CPM
- Winner now
- CPM
- CPM–INC swing
- +7.6%
- CPM share
- 62.2% → 63.3%
- INC share
- 37.0% → 30.5%
- Turnout
- — → —