Constituency
5. Cooch Behar West
Community mirrorWest Bengal Assembly Election, 1982
WB-COOCH-BEHAR-WEST
FBL 58.0%won by 17.6%INC 40.4%
What changed here
DerivedFBL held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 43.7% to 17.6%.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 8.2% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 98.4% of the vote between them, up from 88.7% — 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
91,725
Margin
16,105
17.56%
Candidates
5 contested · winner FBL- 1BIMAL KANTI BASUFBL · FBL53,17058.0%
- 2SHYAMAL CHOUDHURYIndian National Congress · INC37,06540.4%
- 3NIRENDRA PRASAD KARJEEIndependent · IND6460.7%
- 4JAHIR UDDIN BYAPARIIndependent · IND6170.7%
- 5JANAB UDDIN BYAPARIIndependent · IND2270.2%
Since 1977
Derived- Winner then
- FBL
- Winner now
- FBL
- FBL–INC swing
- −26.1%
- FBL share
- 66.2% → 58.0%
- INC share
- 22.5% → 40.4%
- Turnout
- — → —