Constituency
13. Falakata
Community mirrorWest Bengal Assembly Election, 1982
WB-FALAKATA
CPM 53.9%won by 10.2%ICS 43.8%
What changed here
DerivedCommunist Party of India (Marxist) held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 17.2% to 10.2%.
- New challengerICS (ICS) finished second with 43.8% — it did not contest here in 1977.
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 97.7% of the vote between them, up from 73.2% — 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
71,019
Margin
7,230
10.18%
Candidates
4 contested · winner CPM- 1JOGENDRA NATH SINGH ROYCommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM38,30653.9%
- 2JOGES CHANDRA RAYICS · ICS31,07643.8%
- 3HARI KANTA BARMANIndependent · IND8361.2%
- 4NAGENDRA NATH RAYIndependent · IND8011.1%
Since 1977
Derived- Winner then
- CPM
- Winner now
- CPM
- CPM–ICS swing
- −35.0%
- CPM share
- 45.2% → 53.9%
- ICS share
- 0.0% → 43.8%
- Turnout
- — → —