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496. Murshidabad

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West Bengal · India Lok Sabha Election, 1989

IN-MURSHIDABAD

CPM 45.6%won by 7.0%INC 38.6%

What changed here

Derived

Communist Party of India (Marxist) held the seat; the winning margin widened from 0.9% to 7.0%.

  • Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 84.2% between them, down from 93.2% — 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
9,86,433
Turnout
82.0%
Valid votes
8,09,186
Margin
56,544
6.99%

Candidates

8 contested · winner CPM
  1. 1MASUDAL HOSSAIN SYEDCommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM3,68,86045.6%
  2. 2AZIZUR RAHMANIndian National Congress · INC3,12,31638.6%
  3. 3SARKAR SAIMUDDINIndependent · IND46,4505.7%
  4. 4SHYAMAL GUPTABharatiya Janata Party · BJP33,6014.2%
  5. 5ABDUS SALAMIndependent · IND21,5822.7%
  6. 6ABDUL LATIFMUL · MUL14,3771.8%
  7. 7SHEKHAR DUTTACommunist Party of India (Marxist-Leninist) (Liberation) · CPIML10,2051.3%
  8. 8MADHAB KUMAR SARDARAMB · AMB1,7950.2%

Since 1984

Derived
Winner then
CPM
Winner now
CPM
CPM–INC swing
+6.1%
CPM share
47.1% → 45.6%
INC share
46.1% → 38.6%
Turnout
83.5% → 82.0%
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