Constituency
47. Salema
Community mirrorTripura Assembly Election, 1983
TR-SALEMA
CPM 51.6%won by 8.2%TUS 43.5%
What changed here
DerivedCommunist Party of India (Marxist) held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 27.7% to 8.2%.
- New challengerTUS (TUS) finished second with 43.5% — it did not contest here in 1977.
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 95.1% of the vote between them, up from 78.8% — 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
15,551
Margin
1,271
8.17%
Candidates
3 contested · winner CPM- 1DINESH DEB BARMACommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM8,03251.6%
- 2BIJOY KUMAR JAMATIATUS · TUS6,76143.5%
- 3RATNA PRAVA DASIndependent · IND7584.9%
Since 1977
Derived- Winner then
- CPM
- Winner now
- CPM
- CPM–TUS swing
- −45.1%
- CPM share
- 53.2% → 51.6%
- TUS share
- 0.0% → 43.5%
- Turnout
- — → —