Constituency
284. Bolpur
Community mirrorWest Bengal Assembly Election, 1987
WB-BOLPUR
RSP 51.2%won by 11.5%INC 39.6%
What changed here
DerivedRashtriya Sarvajan Party held the seat; the winning margin widened from 8.1% to 11.5%.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 90.8% between them, down from 98.1% — the field split more ways.
- 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
86,098
Margin
9,939
11.54%
Candidates
7 contested · winner RSP- 1TARAPADA GHOSHRashtriya Sarvajan Party · RSP44,06551.2%
- 2SUSHOVAN BANERJEEIndian National Congress · INC34,12639.6%
- 3SAILEN MISRAIndependent · IND4,7995.6%
- 4RABINDRA NATH GHOSHIndependent · IND1,4421.7%
- 5THEODORE KISKU RAPAZIndependent · IND9841.1%
- 6TAMAL KRISHNA ROYJanata Party · JNP5180.6%
- 7NARAYAN CHANDRA MONDALIndependent · IND1640.2%
Since 1982
Derived- Winner then
- RSP
- Winner now
- RSP
- RSP–INC swing
- +3.4%
- RSP share
- 53.1% → 51.2%
- INC share
- 45.0% → 39.6%
- Turnout
- — → —