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Constituency

495. Jangipur

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West Bengal · India Lok Sabha Election, 1989

IN-JANGIPUR

CPM 43.1%won by 5.4%INC 37.6%

What changed here

Derived

Communist 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%

Since 1984

Derived
Winner then
CPM
Winner now
CPM
CPMINC swing
+2.9%
CPM share
48.4% 43.1%
INC share
45.9% 37.6%
Turnout
75.8% 77.2%