Constituency
9. Tufanganj
Community mirrorWest Bengal Assembly Election, 1982
WB-TUFANGANJ
CPM 54.0%won by 9.7%INC 44.3%
What changed here
DerivedCommunist Party of India (Marxist) held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 35.6% to 9.7%.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 5.1% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
- Runner-up changedSecond place passed from Janata Party (JNP) to Indian National Congress (INC).
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 98.4% of the vote between them, up from 82.6% — 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
79,364
Margin
7,695
9.70%
Candidates
4 contested · winner CPMSince 1977
Derived- Winner then
- CPM
- Winner now
- CPM
- CPM–INC swing
- −32.0%
- CPM share
- 59.1% → 54.0%
- INC share
- 17.4% → 44.3%
- Turnout
- — → —