West Bengal assembly election, Mar 1987
294 assembly constituencies in West Bengal, 74.36% turnout.
Seats
294
Candidates
1,497
35 women, 12 elected
Turnout
74.36%
2.63 cr of 3.53 cr
Leading party
CPM
187 of 294 seats
Party performance
Ordered by seats won in West Bengal
| Party | Won | +/− | Contested | Votes | Share | Share +/− |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CPMCommunist Party of India (Marxist) | 187 | +13 | 213 | 1,03,27,984 | 39.30% | +0.81 |
| INCIndian National Congress | 40 | -9 | 294 | 1,09,89,520 | 41.81% | +6.08 |
| FBLAll India Forward Bloc | 26 | -2 | 34 | 15,34,795 | 5.84% | -0.07 |
| RSPRevolutionary Socialist Party | 18 | -1 | 23 | 10,36,138 | 3.94% | -0.07 |
| CPICommunist Party of India | 11 | +4 | 12 | 5,03,854 | 1.92% | +0.10 |
| INDIndependent | 9 | -2 | 730 | 13,00,569 | 4.95% | -2.04 |
| SUCSUC | 2 | 0 | 46 | 2,37,674 | 0.90% | -0.13 |
| MULIndian Union Muslim League | 1 | +1 | 36 | 1,62,850 | 0.62% | +0.05 |
| BJPBharatiya Janata Party | 0 | 0 | 57 | 1,34,867 | 0.51% | -0.06 |
| JNPJanata Party | 0 | 0 | 30 | 41,475 | 0.16% | -0.68 |
| LKDLok Dal | 0 | 0 | 18 | 10,032 | 0.04% | -0.06 |
| ICSSCSICSSCS | 0 | 0 | 4 | 3,335 | 0.01% | — |
- CPM187 (64%)
- INC40 (14%)
- FBL26 (9%)
- RSP18 (6%)
- CPI11 (4%)
- IND9 (3%)
- Others3 (1%)
- CPM187
- INC40
- FBL26
- RSP18
- CPI11
- IND9
- Others3
- CPM187
- INC40
- FBL26
- RSP18
- CPI11
- IND9
- SUC2
- MUL1
Constituency performance
From the 294 results in West Bengal
Closest contest
CANNING WEST
won by 506 (0.52%)
Biggest victory
KALIMPONG
won by 887 (84.32%)
Highest turnout
DEBRA
91.13%
Lowest turnout
KALIMPONG
1.00%
Seat change
Against West Bengal's previous Vidhan Sabha election (1982), matched constituency-for-constituency
- Retained242 (82%)
- Changed hands51 (17%)
- New seat1 (0%)
242 constituencies were won by the same party as last time; 51 changed hands. 1 did not exist at the previous election.
India’s constituencies have not been redrawn since the 2008 delimitation, so this compares the same seat boundary both times.
Vote share & turnout trend
West Bengal, every Vidhan Sabha election on record
VOTE SHARE
- CPM
- INC
- FBL
- RSP
TURNOUT
Assembly seat results
All 294 seats, alphabetical · showing 1–50 of 294
| Assembly seat | Winner | Runner-up | Margin | Turnout |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ALIPORE | INCSAUGATA ROY | CPMASHOKE BOSE | 4,0265.68% | 64.9% |
| ALIPURDUARS | RSPNANI BHATTACHARYA | INCDEBABRATA CHATTERJEE | 16,16816.97% | 73.9% |
| AMDANGA | CPMHASHIM ABDUL HALIM | INCASOKE KRISHNA DUTT | 10,91011.91% | 83.2% |
| AMTA | CPMBARINDRA NATH KOLEY | INCAFTABUDDIN MONDAL | 10,94711.89% | 78.2% |
| ARAIDANGA | CPMHABIB MUSTAFA | INCABDUL HANNAN | 6,8198.73% | 81.4% |
| ARAMBAGH | CPMBENODE DAS | INCABDUL MANNAN | 12,29811.20% | 81.4% |
| ARSA | FBLKUMAR PANDAB | INCSINGH DEO K.P. | 8,67610.62% | 70.7% |
| ASANSOL | INCPRABUDDHA LAHA | CPMGAUTAM ROY CHOWDHURY | 1,4921.90% | 58.1% |
| ASHOKENAGAR | CPMNANI KAR | INCKESHAB CHANDRA BHATTACHARYA | 8,5539.12% | 80.2% |
| AURANGABAD | CPMTOUAB ALI | INCHUMAYUN REZA | 5,5906.68% | 75.7% |
| AUSGRAM | CPMSRIDHAR MALIK | INCBISWAMBHAR MONDAL | 43,32646.17% | 75.6% |
| BADURIA | CPMMD. SHELIM | INCQUAZI ABDUL GAFFAR | 1,4251.55% | 82.6% |
| BAGDAHA | INCAPURBA LAL MAJUMDAR | FBLKAMALAKSHMI BISWAS | 5860.65% | 86.9% |
| BAGNAN | CPMNIRUPAMA CHATTOPADHYAY | INCSUSANTA BHATTACHERJEE | 5,4615.51% | 80.2% |
| BALAGARH | CPMABINASH PRAMANIK | INCGOPAL KRISHNA DHAR | 16,79317.88% | 80.1% |
| BALLY | INCSUPRIYA BASU | CPMPATITPABAN PATHAK | 1,7342.00% | 68.0% |
| BALLYGUNGE | CPMSACHIN SEN | INCSUSHOBHAN BASU | 5,7796.05% | 65.5% |
| BALRAMPUR | CPMBIKRAM TUDU | INCRASIK CHANDRA MAJHI | 25,88732.04% | 74.4% |
| BALURGHAT | RSPBISWANATH CHOUDHURY | INCMADHAB CHANDRA ROY | 10,40211.99% | 80.8% |
| BANDUAN | CPMLAKSHI RAM KISKU | INCRAMPRASAD HANSDA | 15,83219.84% | 73.5% |
| BANKURA | CPMPARTHA DE | INCKASHINATH MISRA | 1,6091.61% | 73.2% |
| BANSBERIA | CPMPRABIR SEN GUPTA | INCROBIN MUKHERJEE | 3,7714.05% | 77.0% |
| BARA BAZAR | INCRAJESH KHAITAN | INDSHAUKAT RAHAMANI | 16,41338.71% | 49.4% |
| BARABANI | CPMAJIT KUMAR CHAKARBARTY | INCUPADHYAY MANIK | 2,4592.70% | 68.9% |
| BARANAGAR | RSPMATISH ROY | INCPRANAB KANTI GHOSH | 7,1795.91% | 70.8% |
| BARASAT | FBLSARAL DED | INCAMAR CHANDAR DEB | 23,25018.80% | 75.8% |
| BARJORA | CPMJAYASREE MITRA | INCSUDHANGSU SEKHAR TEWARI | 11,69911.60% | 75.1% |
| BARUIPUR | CPMHEMEN MOJUMDAR | INCARUP BHADRA | 13,99114.35% | 77.3% |
| BARWAN | RSPAMALENDRA ROY | INCGADADHAR GHOSH | 18,73421.03% | 67.9% |
| BASANTI | RSPSUBHAS NASKAR | INCJNANENDRA NATH MAJUMDAR | 11,93913.03% | 72.5% |
| BASIRHAT | CPMNARAYAN MUKHERJEE | INCDILIP MAJUMDER | 7,2216.82% | 79.6% |
| BEHALA EAST | CPMNIRANJAN MUKHERJEE | INCDEBASHIS BHATTACHARYA | 20,58716.79% | 73.5% |
| BEHALA WEST | CPMRABIN MUKHERJEE | INCLAKSHMI KANTA BASU | 13,25511.44% | 72.1% |
| BELDANGA | INCNURUL ISLAM CHOUDHURY | RSPNOWSHAD ALI SHAIKH | 9,0538.81% | 76.6% |
| BELGACHIA EAST | CPMSUBHASH CHAKRABORTY | INCKUMARES BASU | 8,5656.17% | 69.2% |
| BELGACHIA WEST | INCSUDIPTO ROY | CPMLAKSHMI CHARAN SEN | 2,8943.58% | 70.7% |
| BELIAGHATA | CPMMANABENDRA MUKHERJEE | INCBIRESH BOSE | 8,52610.18% | 68.2% |
| BERHAMPORE | RSPDEBABRATA BANDAPADHYAY | INCSANKAR DAS PAUL | 7,4056.62% | 74.7% |
| BHAGABANGOLA | INDSYED NAWAB JANI MEERJA | INCMOJIBUR RAHAMAN | 6,2327.18% | 78.4% |
| BHAGABANPUR | CPMPRADHAN PRASANTA | INCJANA HARIPADA | 7,6749.84% | 81.0% |
| BHANGAR | CPMABDUR RAZZAK MOLLA | INCSHAIKH SAHIDAR RAHMAN | 12,45713.28% | 81.9% |
| BHARATPUR | RSPSATYA PADA BHATTACHARYYA | INCKHAIRUL KHONDAKAR | 19,00822.28% | 66.6% |
| BHATAR | CPMSYED MD. MASIH | INCBANAMALI HAJRA | 17,46518.25% | 77.3% |
| BHATPARA | INCSATYANARYAN SINGH | CPMSIVA PRASAD BHATTACHARYA | 5,1085.58% | 71.2% |
| BIJPUR | CPMJAGADISH CHANDRA DAS | INCBIMALANANDA DATTA | 1,8361.96% | 73.3% |
| BINPUR | CPMDURGA TUDU | INCPANCHANAN HANSDA | 11,08414.54% | 67.8% |
| BISHNUPUR EAST | CPMSUNDAR NASKAR | INCARDHENDU SEKHAR NASKAR | 13,31117.86% | 79.7% |
| BISHNUPUR WEST | CPMKASHI NATH ADAK | INCSHAIK MOQUEBUL HAQUE | 10,64811.88% | 79.5% |
| BOLPUR | RSPTARAPADA GHOSH | INCSUSHOVAN BANERJEE | 9,93911.54% | 73.5% |
| BONGAON | CPMRANJIT MITRA | INCBHUPEN SETH | 2,5072.42% | 83.4% |
Vote share and swing on this page are the party’s share of valid votes in West Bengal alone — a different number from its national or all-state figures, and never mixed with them.