Constituency
24. Kurseong
Community mirrorWest Bengal Assembly Election, 1982
WB-KURSEONG
CPM 47.6%won by 0.5%INC 47.1%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Indian National Congress (INC) lost it to Communist Party of India (Marxist) (CPM), which now leads by 0.5%.
- CPM vote shareCPM went from 24.0% to 47.6% of the vote here (+23.6%).
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 94.6% of the vote between them, up from 51.6% — 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
59,230
Margin
281
0.47%
Candidates
3 contested · winner CPM- 1H. B. RAICommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM28,17047.6%
- 2DAWA NORBULAIndian National Congress · INC27,88947.1%
- 3BISHNU GAHATRAJIndependent · IND3,1715.4%
Since 1977
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- CPMflipped
- CPM–INC swing
- +4.1%
- CPM share
- 24.0% → 47.6%
- INC share
- 27.6% → 47.1%
- Turnout
- — → —