Constituency
4. Cooch Behar North
Community mirrorWest Bengal Assembly Election, 1982
WB-COOCH-BEHAR-NORTH
FBL 57.2%won by 15.8%INC 41.4%
What changed here
DerivedFBL held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 46.5% to 15.8%.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 5.9% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 98.5% of the vote between them, up from 79.6% — 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
81,907
Margin
12,937
15.79%
Candidates
4 contested · winner FBL- 1APARAJITA GOPPIFBL · FBL46,81057.2%
- 2SUNIL KARIndian National Congress · INC33,87341.4%
- 3RABINDRA NATH SARKARIndependent · IND7660.9%
- 4BHABESWAR DASIndependent · IND4580.6%
Since 1977
Derived- Winner then
- FBL
- Winner now
- FBL
- FBL–INC swing
- −30.8%
- FBL share
- 63.1% → 57.2%
- INC share
- 16.5% → 41.4%
- Turnout
- — → —