Constituency
20. Jalpaiguri
Community mirrorWest Bengal Assembly Election, 1982
WB-JALPAIGURI
FBL 49.0%won by 1.6%INC 47.4%
What changed here
DerivedFBL held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 14.4% to 1.6%.
- Runner-up changedSecond place passed from Janata Party (JNP) to Indian National Congress (INC).
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 96.4% of the vote between them, up from 62.5% — 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
71,903
Margin
1,136
1.58%
Candidates
5 contested · winner FBL- 1NIRMAL BOSEFBL · FBL35,22049.0%
- 2ANUPAM SENIndian National Congress · INC34,08447.4%
- 3DILIP BHATTACHARYYASUC · SUC1,4192.0%
- 4RUKMINI RANJAN ROYIndependent · IND8991.3%
- 5PRABIR RANJAN DUTTAIndependent · IND2810.4%
Since 1977
Derived- Winner then
- FBL
- Winner now
- FBL
- FBL–INC swing
- −16.6%
- FBL share
- 38.5% → 49.0%
- INC share
- 20.3% → 47.4%
- Turnout
- — → —