Constituency
23. Darjeeling
Community mirrorWest Bengal Assembly Election, 1982
WB-DARJEELING
CPM 50.3%won by 0.5%IND 49.7%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Independent (IND) lost it to Communist Party of India (Marxist) (CPM), which now leads by 0.5%.
- CPM vote shareCPM went from 21.2% to 50.3% of the vote here (+29.1%).
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 100.0% of the vote between them, up from 52.9% — 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
58,021
Margin
309
0.53%
Candidates
2 contested · winner CPM- 1DAWA LAMACommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM29,16550.3%
- 2J. D. S. RAIIndependent · IND28,85649.7%
Since 1977
Derived- Winner then
- IND
- Winner now
- CPMflipped
- CPM–IND swing
- +11.1%
- CPM share
- 21.2% → 50.3%
- IND share
- 31.8% → 49.7%
- Turnout
- — → —