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 +/−
CPM Communist Party of India (Marxist)	187	+13	213	1,03,27,984	39.30%	+0.81
INC Indian National Congress	40	-9	294	1,09,89,520	41.81%	+6.08
FBL All India Forward Bloc	26	-2	34	15,34,795	5.84%	-0.07
RSP Revolutionary Socialist Party	18	-1	23	10,36,138	3.94%	-0.07
CPI Communist Party of India	11	+4	12	5,03,854	1.92%	+0.10
IND Independent	9	-2	730	13,00,569	4.95%	-2.04
SUC SUC	2	0	46	2,37,674	0.90%	-0.13
MUL Indian Union Muslim League	1	+1	36	1,62,850	0.62%	+0.05
BJP Bharatiya Janata Party	0	0	57	1,34,867	0.51%	-0.06
JNP Janata Party	0	0	30	41,475	0.16%	-0.68
LKD Lok Dal	0	0	18	10,032	0.04%	-0.06
ICSSCS ICSSCS	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

TURNOUT

Assembly seat results

All 294 seats, alphabetical · showing 101–150 of 294

Assembly seat	Winner	Runner-up	Margin	Turnout
GARHBETA EAST	CPMSUSANTA GHOSH	INCPRONAB ROY	11,80413.81%	80.7%
GARHBETA WEST	CPMKRISHNAPRASAD DULEY	INCKINKAR RUINDAS	15,53417.62%	78.5%
GHATAL	CPMRATANCHANDRA PAKHIRA	INCMADHU SUDAN DOLAI	23,61225.05%	83.0%
GOALPOKHAR	FBLMOHAMMAD RANJAN ALI	INCNIZAMUDDIN AHAMED	2,9414.23%	57.0%
GOGHAT	FBLMALICK SHIBPRASHAD	INCNANU RAM ROY	31,28631.24%	78.5%
GOPIBALLAVPUR	CPMDE SUNIL	INCBIJOY KUMAR SAHU	20,17821.73%	78.5%
GOSABA	RSPGANESH CHANDRA MONDAL	INCPRAMILA BISWAS	9,05911.65%	79.7%
HABIBPUR	CPMSARKAR MURMU	INCMOSHI CHARAN TUDU	12,77715.98%	71.8%
HABRA	CPMKAMAL SEN GUPTA (BOSE)	INCBIMAN DATTA	10,04010.09%	80.1%
HANSAN	INCASIT KUMAR MAL	INDTRILOCHAN DAS	2,3012.88%	76.7%
HANSKHALI	CPMSUKUMAR MANDAL	INCSHASHANKA SHERKHAR BISWAS	15,47915.60%	78.9%
HARIHARPARA	CPMMOZAMMEL HOQUE	INCSHAIKH IMAJUDDIN	10,08610.31%	77.6%
HARINGHATA	CPMNANI GOPAL MALAKAR	INCDILIP ROY	21,15119.45%	82.0%
HARIPAL	CPMBALAI BANERJEE	INCTUSAR SINHA RAY	18,09619.69%	84.3%
HARISHCHANDRAPUR	FBLBIRENDRA KUMAR MITRA	INCABDUL WAHED	13,75916.75%	77.1%
HAROA	CPMKSHITI RANJAN MONDAL	INCLAKSHI KANTA MONDAL	5,8806.09%	78.7%
HASNABAD	CPMGOUTAM DEB	INCANANTA ROY	10,84613.20%	80.4%
HINGALGANJ	CPMSUDHANSHU MONDAL	INCADITYA MONDAL	11,99013.04%	81.1%
HIRAPUR	INCSUHRID BASU MALLIK	CPMBAMAPADE MUKHERJEE	5,6346.81%	65.4%
HOWRAH CENTRAL	INCAMBICA BANERJEE	INDSANKAR MONDOL	14,16117.80%	68.8%
HOWRAH NORTH	INCASOK GHOSH	CPMLAGAN DEO SINGH	3,3173.61%	68.3%
HOWRAH SOUTH	INCMRITYUNJOY BANERJEE	CPMPRALAY TALUKDAR	4,2445.36%	66.2%
HURA	CPMAMBARISH MUKHOPADHYAY	INCBIKASH MAHATO	10,17612.25%	75.0%
INDAS	CPMBADAN BORA	INCPIRU CHANDRA PANDIT	25,49927.71%	82.6%
INDPUR	CPIMADAN BAURI	INCBINODE BEHARI MAJI	17,80320.55%	72.0%
ISLAMPUR	CPMMD. FARUQUE AZAM	INCCHOWDHURY MOHAMMAD ABDUL KARIM	9451.28%	64.9%
ITAHAR	CPISWADESH CHAKI	INCABEDIN ZAINAL	4,5214.95%	79.7%
JADAVPUR	CPMBUDDHADEB BHATTACHARJEE	INCPROBHAT CHATTERJEE	36,42230.89%	72.7%
JAGATBALLAVPUR	CPMM. ANSARUDDIN	INCBINODANANDA BANERJEE	10,79310.67%	79.1%
JAGATDAL	FBLNIHAR BASU	INCNANIGOPAL SARKAR	14,79415.59%	73.7%
JAIPUR	FBLBINDESWAR MAHATO	INCSHANTIRAM MAHATO	4,2325.27%	70.1%
JALANGI	CPMATAHAR RAHAMAN	INCABDUL BARI BISWAS	13,17812.09%	83.3%
JALPAIGURI	FBLNIRMAL KUMAR BOSE	INCANUPAM SEN	4,9295.86%	74.5%
JAMALPUR	INDSUNIL SANTRA	INCPURANJOY PRAMANIK	19,13619.03%	82.1%
JAMURIA	CPMBIKASH CHOWDHURY	INCBISWANATH CHAKRABORTY	21,67823.89%	68.6%
JANGIPARA	CPMMANINDAR NATH JANA	INCDWIPENDAR MUKHERJEE	11,67512.21%	79.2%
JANGIPUR	INCHABIBUR RAHAMAN	RSPABDUL HAQUE	1,5151.82%	66.4%
JHALDA	FBLSATYARANJAN MAHATO	INCSUBHAS CHANDRA MAHATO	7,9149.65%	73.6%
JHARGRAM	CPMABANI BHUSAN SATPATHI	INCBHABESH MAHATA	11,49012.15%	74.2%
JORABAGAN	INCSUBRATA MUKHERJEE	CPMSARALA MAHESWARI	10,67617.91%	57.3%
JORASANKO	INCDEOKI NANDAN PODDAR	FBLSUKUMAR DAS	11,75725.35%	57.8%
JOYNAGAR	SUCDEBA PRASAD SARKAR	INCKUMUD BHATTACHARYA	8,5618.89%	81.2%
KABITIRTHA	INCRAM PYARE RAM	FBLKALIMUDDIN SHAMS	6,9777.94%	67.0%
KAKDWIP	CPMHRISHIKESH MAITY	INCGOURISANKAR BHATTACHARJEE	9,81311.92%	81.1%
KALCHINI	INCKHUDIRAM PAHAN	RSPMANOHAR TIRKEY	2,6103.83%	63.5%
KALIACHAK	CPMDINESH JOARDAR	INCAHMED SAMSUDDIN	13,24813.79%	78.4%
KALIAGANJ	CPMRAMANI KANTA DEB SARMA	INCNABA KUMAR ROY	1,5271.76%	77.2%
KALIGANJ	INCS.M. FAZLUR RAHAMAN	RSPGHOSH DEBSARAN	9181.00%	77.0%
KALIMPONG	CPIMOHANSING RAI	INCTASHI TSHERING LEPCHA	88784.32%	1.0%
KALNA	CPMANJU KAR	INCDHIRENDRA NATH CHATTERJEE	22,11422.58%	81.0%

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.