Constituency
72. Kaliganj
Community mirrorWest Bengal Assembly Election, 1987
WB-KALIGANJ
INC 47.7%won by 1.0%RSP 46.7%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Rashtriya Sarvajan Party (RSP) lost it to Indian National Congress (INC), which now leads by 1.0%.
- INC vote shareINC went from 35.5% to 47.7% of the vote here (+12.2%).
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 94.5% of the vote between them, up from 73.7% — a tighter two-way contest.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
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Turnout
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Valid votes
92,051
Margin
918
1.00%
Candidates
6 contested · winner INC- 1S.M. FAZLUR RAHAMANIndian National Congress · INC43,94847.7%
- 2GHOSH DEBSARANRashtriya Sarvajan Party · RSP43,03046.7%
- 3AJIT KUMAR SAHAIndependent · IND2,0072.2%
- 4SHAIKH HARROOJ ALISUC · SUC2,0042.2%
- 5HARUN-LI-RASID SHAIKMUL · MUL7550.8%
- 6SHAIKH SURUCHAND ALIIndependent · IND3070.3%
Since 1982
Derived- Winner then
- RSP
- Winner now
- INCflipped
- INC–RSP swing
- +3.6%
- INC share
- 35.5% → 47.7%
- RSP share
- 38.2% → 46.7%
- Turnout
- — → —