State board · Vidhan Sabha

West Bengal Vidhan Sabha 1988

Results board · 2 constituencies

HouseVidhan Sabha

StateWest Bengal

Seats

Constituencies

Majority

Seats needed of 2

Electors

2.43L

On the roll

Votes polled

1.73L

71.2% of electors

Median turnout

71.1%

Median of 2 seats

INC short

−1

Below majority · 1 − 2

[01]Seat matrix

2 seats · one dot per seat · ordered by seats won

Majority · 2 of 2INC 1 · 1 short of majority

INC 150.0% Indian National Congress

RSP 150.0% Revolutionary Socialist Party

Not in the source

The source carries no state-level vote share for West Bengal 1988.

Alliances

Not in the source for this election.

[03]Computed insights

Arithmetic · working shown

Barabani was decided by 653 votes, the closest of 2 seats; Kumargram had the widest margin, 22,298.
min / max of margin over 2 seats with a recorded margin
1 seat was won by a margin under 1%; INC won 1 of them.
count(margin % < 1.0) = 1 of 2 · INC 1
Turnout ran from 70.2% in Kumargram to 72.1% in Barabani; the median seat polled 71.1%.
min / median / max over 2 seats with a recorded turnout

Each line is arithmetic over the figures on this page.

[04]Turnout

2 of 2 seats carry a turnout

< 50% 00.0% of seats

50–60 00.0% of seats

60–70 00.0% of seats

70–80 2100.0% of seats

≥ 80% 00.0% of seats

LowestKumargram70.2%
HighestBarabani72.1%
NOTANOTA did not exist before 2013Not recorded

[05]Every seat

2 rows · by constituency number

Constituency results, West Bengal Vidhan Sabha 1988, all 2 seats
#	Constituency	Winner	Party	Votes polled	Margin	Margin %	Turnout %
10	KumargramSTWIDEST	S.Toppo	Revolutionary Socialist Party	77,460	22,298	28.8	70.2
258	BarabaniCLOSEST	M.Upadhyay	Indian National Congress	95,385	653	0.7	72.1

Margin bar scaled to the widest margin, 22,298 votes

Seat resultsElection Commission of India, constituency-wise results · Vidhan Sabha 1988 · West Bengal · 2 seats · retrieval date not recorded in the results database