Constituency
497. Berhampore
Community mirrorWest Bengal · India Lok Sabha Election, 1989
IN-BERHAMPORE
RSP 48.3%won by 8.1%INC 40.2%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Indian National Congress (INC) lost it to Rashtriya Sarvajan Party (RSP), which now leads by 8.1%.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 88.5% between them, down from 96.7% — 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
10,45,559
Turnout
74.5%
Valid votes
7,79,179
Margin
62,796
8.06%
Candidates
8 contested · winner RSP- 1MANI BHATTACHARYARashtriya Sarvajan Party · RSP3,76,06448.3%
- 2SANKAR DAS PAULIndian National Congress · INC3,13,26840.2%
- 3PRANAB KUMAR BANDYOPADHAYAYBharatiya Janata Party · BJP58,8017.5%
- 4SHAIKH ABDUL BARIIndependent · IND22,6502.9%
- 5MOKADDIM SHAIKHMUL · MUL4,4450.6%
- 6ROY AMIYA KUMARIndependent · IND1,6150.2%
- 7S. K. GOLAM MAHABUIndependent · IND1,4530.2%
- 8CHITTARANJAN SARKARAMB · AMB8830.1%
Since 1984
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- RSPflipped
- RSP–INC swing
- +8.5%
- RSP share
- 48.1% → 48.3%
- INC share
- 48.6% → 40.2%
- Turnout
- 75.3% → 74.5%