Constituency
509. Calcutta North East
Community mirrorWest Bengal · India Lok Sabha Election, 1989
IN-CALCUTTA-NORTH-EAST
INC 51.6%won by 4.7%CPM 46.9%
What changed here
DerivedIndian National Congress held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 17.8% to 4.7%.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 5.5% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
8,30,794
Turnout
71.2%
Valid votes
5,91,656
Margin
27,629
4.67%
Candidates
10 contested · winner INC- 1AJIT KUMAR PANJAIndian National Congress · INC3,05,23751.6%
- 2SATYASADHAN CHAKRABORTYCommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM2,77,60846.9%
- 3SIBU CHAKRABORTYIndependent · IND2,5720.4%
- 4PRADIP GUHA ROYIndependent · IND1,2200.2%
- 5SUDHINDRA CHANDRAIndependent · IND1,1540.2%
- 6SUKUMAR BISWASIndependent · IND1,0760.2%
- 7HARIZAN SANTALIndependent · IND9300.2%
- 8AJIT GHOSHIndependent · IND9090.2%
- 9TAPAN KUMAR SARKARIndependent · IND5290.1%
- 10ACHINTA JANAIndependent · IND4210.1%
Since 1984
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- INC
- INC–CPM swing
- −13.1%
- INC share
- 57.1% → 51.6%
- CPM share
- 39.3% → 46.9%
- Turnout
- 70.2% → 71.2%