Constituency
527. Katwa
Community mirrorWest Bengal · India Lok Sabha Election, 1989
IN-KATWA
CPM 52.4%won by 13.6%INC 38.8%
What changed here
DerivedCommunist Party of India (Marxist) held the seat; the winning margin widened from 6.7% to 13.6%.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 91.2% between them, down from 100.0% — 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
9,69,983
Turnout
82.4%
Valid votes
7,99,537
Margin
1,09,109
13.65%
Candidates
8 contested · winner CPM- 1SAIFUDDIN CHAUDHURYCommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM4,19,04252.4%
- 2NURUL ISLAMIndian National Congress · INC3,09,93338.8%
- 3SHANTI ROYBharatiya Janata Party · BJP54,1946.8%
- 4BASKOY GOPENATHIndependent · IND9,5681.2%
- 5MAHADEB DALALJNPJP · JNPJP2,9930.4%
- 6KASHINATH MUNSHIBahujan Samaj Party · BSP1,5070.2%
- 7GOPINATH MANDIIndependent · IND1,1990.1%
- 8RAJNATH KURMIDDP · DDP1,1010.1%
Since 1984
Derived- Winner then
- CPM
- Winner now
- CPM
- CPM–INC swing
- +7.0%
- CPM share
- 53.3% → 52.4%
- INC share
- 46.7% → 38.8%
- Turnout
- 81.1% → 82.4%