Constituency
522. Bankura
Community mirrorWest Bengal · India Lok Sabha Election, 1989
IN-BANKURA
CPM 55.9%won by 18.2%INC 37.7%
What changed here
DerivedCommunist Party of India (Marxist) held the seat; the winning margin widened from 4.4% to 18.2%.
- TurnoutTurnout rose 2.9% to 74.5%.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
9,15,339
Turnout
74.5%
Valid votes
6,81,668
Margin
1,24,398
18.25%
Candidates
10 contested · winner CPM- 1BASUDEB ACHARIACommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM3,81,08755.9%
- 2ASHIS CHAKRABARTYIndian National Congress · INC2,56,68937.7%
- 3BHASKAR BHADRAIndependent · IND22,2683.3%
- 4NANDA LAL KISKUIndependent · IND9,3941.4%
- 5SAKTIPADA MUKHOPADHYAYIndependent · IND3,0350.4%
- 6ASOK MAHATAJKD · JKD2,6890.4%
- 7ASIM GOSWAMIIndependent · IND2,2690.3%
- 8LAXMIKANTA MAHATAIndependent · IND2,2110.3%
- 9NAND LAL GUPTADDP · DDP1,4190.2%
- 10ANIL KUMAR THAKURIndependent · IND6070.1%
Since 1984
Derived- Winner then
- CPM
- Winner now
- CPM
- CPM–INC swing
- +13.9%
- CPM share
- 48.6% → 55.9%
- INC share
- 44.2% → 37.7%
- Turnout
- 71.5% → 74.5%