Constituency
495. Jangipur
Community mirrorWest Bengal · India Lok Sabha Election, 1989
IN-JANGIPUR
CPM 43.1%won by 5.4%INC 37.6%
What changed here
DerivedCommunist Party of India (Marxist) held the seat; the winning margin widened from 2.5% to 5.4%.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 5.3% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 80.7% between them, down from 94.3% — the field split more ways.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
9,32,369
Turnout
77.2%
Valid votes
7,19,528
Margin
39,181
5.45%
Candidates
6 contested · winner CPM- 1ABEDIN ZAINALCommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM3,09,79843.1%
- 2MOHAMMAD SOHRABIndian National Congress · INC2,70,61737.6%
- 3DHANANJOY DASBharatiya Janata Party · BJP82,67511.5%
- 4SAMAUN BISWASMUL · MUL43,0086.0%
- 5MOSARRAF HOSSAINIndependent · IND7,5291.0%
- 6ABDUS SAYEEDIndependent · IND5,9010.8%
Since 1984
Derived- Winner then
- CPM
- Winner now
- CPM
- CPM–INC swing
- +2.9%
- CPM share
- 48.4% → 43.1%
- INC share
- 45.9% → 37.6%
- Turnout
- 75.8% → 77.2%