Constituency
22. Kalimpong
Community mirrorWest Bengal Assembly Election, 1982
WB-KALIMPONG
IND 53.1%won by 32.2%IND 20.9%
What changed here
DerivedIndependent held the seat; the winning margin widened from 15.1% to 32.2%.
- Safe seatIndependent won by more than 25 points — a stronghold, not a contest.
- Multi-cornered4 candidates cleared 5% — a genuinely multi-cornered fight.
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
28,523
Margin
9,194
32.23%
Candidates
5 contested · winner IND- 1RENU LEENA SUBBAIndependent · IND15,15453.1%
- 2BADRINAYARAN PRADHANIndependent · IND5,96020.9%
- 3MOHAN SINGH RAICommunist Party of India · CPI5,34418.7%
- 4TASHI TSHERING LEPCHAIndependent · IND1,5875.6%
- 5RAN BAHADUR KHATIWARAIndependent · IND4781.7%
Since 1977
Derived- Winner then
- IND
- Winner now
- IND
- IND–IND swing
- 0.0%
- IND share
- 42.7% → 53.1%
- IND share
- 42.7% → 53.1%
- Turnout
- — → —