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West Bengal Lok Sabha 1989

Results board · 42 constituencies

HouseLok Sabha
StateWest Bengal
Seats
42
Constituencies
Majority
22
Seats needed of 42
Electors
4.04Cr
On the roll
Votes polled
3.22Cr
79.7% of electors
Median turnout
80.1%
Median of 42 seats
CPI(M) lead
+5
Above majority · 27 − 22

[01]Seat matrix

42 seats · one dot per seat · ordered by seats won
Hemicycle of 42 seats: CPI(M) 27, RSP 4, INC 4, AIFB 3, CPI 3, GNLF 1. Majority line at 22 seats. Hemicycle of 42 seats: CPI(M) 27, RSP 4, INC 4, AIFB 3, CPI 3, GNLF 1. Majority line at 22 seats.
Majority · 22 of 42CPI(M) 27 · +5 above majority
CPI(M) 2764.3% Communist Party of India (Marxist)
RSP 49.5% Revolutionary Socialist Party
INC 49.5% Indian National Congress
AIFB 37.1% All India Forward Bloc
CPI 37.1% Communist Party of India
GNLF 12.4% Gorkha National Liberation Front

[02]Vote share

State level, as published
INC 41.4%4 seats · 9.5%
CPI(M) 38.4%27 seats · 64.3%
RSP 4.7%4 seats · 9.5%
AIFB 3.9%3 seats · 7.1%
CPI 3.9%3 seats · 7.1%
Others 7.7%1 seat · 2.4%

Vote share not published

  • GNLF1 seat

The published shares sum to 100.0%, so these parties' votes sit inside Others.

Alliances

Not in the source for this election.

[03]Computed insights

Arithmetic · working shown

  1. CPI(M) converted 38.4% of votes into 64.3% of seats, a seat premium of 25.9 pp.

    27 ÷ 42 = 64.3% · 64.3 − 38.4 = +25.9

  2. INC polled 41.4% of votes, the highest share, but won 4 seats (9.5%).

    4 ÷ 42 = 9.5% · 9.5 − 41.4 = −31.9

  3. Howrah was decided by 1,432 votes, the closest of 42 seats; Durgapur had the widest margin, 2,62,624.

    min / max of margin over 42 seats with a recorded margin

  4. 2 seats were won by a margin under 1%; CPI(M) won 1 of them.

    count(margin % < 1.0) = 2 of 42 · CPI(M) 1

  5. In SC-reserved seats CPI(M) won 6 of 10 (60.0%), against 64.3% of all seats.

    6 ÷ 10 = 60.0% · 27 ÷ 42 = 64.3%

  6. Turnout ran from 63.3% in Calcutta North West to 86.4% in Cooch Behar; the median seat polled 80.1%.

    min / median / max over 42 seats with a recorded turnout

Each line is arithmetic over the figures on this page.

[04]Turnout

42 of 42 seats carry a turnout
025507510080.1%MEDIAN SEAT
< 50% 00.0% of seats
50–60 00.0% of seats
60–70 24.8% of seats
70–80 1945.2% of seats
≥ 80% 2150.0% of seats
  • LowestCalcutta North West63.3%
  • HighestCooch Behar86.4%
  • NOTANOTA did not exist before 2013Not recorded

[05]Every seat

42 rows · by constituency number
Constituency results, West Bengal Lok Sabha 1989, all 42 seats
# Constituency Winner Party Votes polled Margin Margin % Turnout %
01 Cooch BeharSC Amar Roy Pradhan All India Forward Bloc 8,34,207 53,470 6.4 86.4
02 AlipurduarsST Pius Tirkey Revolutionary Socialist Party 7,18,825 85,643 11.9 79.3
03 JalpaiguriSC Manik Sanyal Communist Party of India (Marxist) 7,43,650 1,12,128 15.1 79.5
04 Darjeeling Inderjeet Gorkha National Liberation Front 7,88,359 1,45,105 18.4 74.3
05 Raiganj Golam Yazdani Indian National Congress 7,63,803 2,899 0.4 76.8
06 Balurghat Palas Barman Revolutionary Socialist Party 7,95,507 33,526 4.2 83.9
07 Malda Abul Barkat Ataul Ghani Khan Choudhury Indian National Congress 7,36,351 29,897 4.1 81.8
08 Jangipur Abedin Zainal Communist Party of India (Marxist) 7,32,851 39,181 5.3 78.6
09 Murshidabad Masudal Hossain Syed Communist Party of India (Marxist) 8,20,706 56,544 6.9 83.2
10 Berhampore Mani Bhattacharya Revolutionary Socialist Party 7,91,398 62,796 7.9 75.7
11 Krishnagar Ajoy Mukherjee Communist Party of India (Marxist) 7,61,992 16,153 2.1 82.7
12 Nabadwip Asim Bala Communist Party of India (Marxist) 9,18,063 52,663 5.7 85.4
13 BarasatSC Chitta Basu All India Forward Bloc 8,98,099 55,369 6.2 85.6
14 BasirhatSC Monoranjan Sur Communist Party of India 7,70,589 20,343 2.6 86.3
15 Joynagar Sanat Kumar Mandal Revolutionary Socialist Party 7,58,242 63,807 8.4 81.3
16 Mathurapur Radhikaranjan Pramanik Communist Party of India (Marxist) 7,39,596 22,632 3.1 84.5
17 Diamond Harbour Amal Datta Communist Party of India (Marxist) 7,46,043 43,045 5.8 79.3
18 Jadavpur Malini Bhattacharya Communist Party of India (Marxist) 8,92,984 30,900 3.5 78.9
19 BarrackporeSC Tarit Baran Topder Communist Party of India (Marxist) 7,33,757 37,091 5.1 79.8
20 Dum DumSC Nirmal Kanti Chatterjee Communist Party of India (Marxist) 10,27,270 1,17,004 11.4 79.2
21 Calcutta North West Debi Prasad Pal Indian National Congress 4,39,766 54,732 12.4 63.3
22 Calcutta North East Ajit Kumar Panja Indian National Congress 6,04,048 27,629 4.6 72.7
23 Calcutta South Biplab Dasgupta Communist Party of India (Marxist) 7,40,076 25,156 3.4 73.0
24 HowrahCLOSEST Sushanta Chakarborty Communist Party of India (Marxist) 8,29,059 1,432 0.2 73.5
25 Uluberia Hanan Mollah Communist Party of India (Marxist) 7,62,036 52,096 6.8 80.3
26 Serampore Sudarsan Ray Chowdhuri Communist Party of India (Marxist) 8,20,770 66,458 8.1 77.0
27 Hooghly Rupchand Pal Communist Party of India (Marxist) 8,03,156 69,547 8.7 83.5
28 Arambagh Anil Basu Communist Party of India (Marxist) 8,12,748 64,498 7.9 86.0
29 PanskuraSC Gita Mukherjee Communist Party of India 7,35,702 1,26,302 17.2 85.3
30 Tamluk Satyagopal Mistra Communist Party of India (Marxist) 7,93,885 24,656 3.1 85.3
31 Contai Sudhir Giri Communist Party of India (Marxist) 7,12,006 27,080 3.8 82.9
32 Midnapore Indrajit Gupta Communist Party of India 7,60,379 1,32,320 17.4 80.5
33 JhargramST Matilal Hansda Communist Party of India (Marxist) 7,11,333 2,30,898 32.5 81.1
34 Purulia Chitta Ranjan Mahata All India Forward Bloc 6,90,012 1,38,895 20.1 77.3
35 Bankura Basudeb Acharia Communist Party of India (Marxist) 6,94,886 1,24,398 17.9 75.9
36 Vishnupur Sukhendu Khan Communist Party of India (Marxist) 7,44,882 1,87,589 25.2 82.1
37 DurgapurSCWIDEST Purna Chandra Malik Communist Party of India (Marxist) 7,32,788 2,62,624 35.8 71.8
38 AsansolSC Haradhan Roy Communist Party of India (Marxist) 7,71,578 42,237 5.5 69.9
39 Burdwan Sudhir Ray Communist Party of India (Marxist) 8,53,782 1,95,530 22.9 83.3
40 Katwa Saifuddin Chaudhury Communist Party of India (Marxist) 8,11,642 1,09,109 13.4 83.7
41 BolpurSC Somnath Chatterjee Communist Party of India (Marxist) 7,11,128 1,63,593 23.0 79.2
42 Birbhum Dome Ramchandra Communist Party of India (Marxist) 6,92,217 61,949 8.9 76.3
Margin bar scaled to the widest margin, 2,62,624 votes

Seat resultsElection Commission of India, constituency-wise results · Lok Sabha 1989 · West Bengal · 42 seats · retrieval date not recorded in the results database

Vote share and alliancesState-level summary published with the same results · retrieval date not recorded in the results database

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