Constituency
14. Madarihat
Community mirrorWest Bengal Assembly Election, 1982
WB-MADARIHAT
RSP 60.5%won by 27.0%INC 33.4%
What changed here
DerivedRashtriya Sarvajan Party held the seat; the winning margin widened from 21.5% to 27.0%.
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 93.9% of the vote between them, up from 78.8% — a tighter two-way contest.
- Safe seatRashtriya Sarvajan Party won by more than 25 points — a stronghold, not a 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
60,933
Margin
16,464
27.02%
Candidates
4 contested · winner RSP- 1SUSHIL KUJURRashtriya Sarvajan Party · RSP36,83760.5%
- 2JAGAT BARIAIndian National Congress · INC20,37333.4%
- 3JULIUS TOPPOIndependent · IND2,2653.7%
- 4SANJOY KUMAR ORAONIndependent · IND1,4582.4%
Since 1977
Derived- Winner then
- RSP
- Winner now
- RSP
- RSP–INC swing
- +5.5%
- RSP share
- 50.1% → 60.5%
- INC share
- 28.6% → 33.4%
- Turnout
- — → —