Constituency
27. Chopra
Community mirrorWest Bengal Assembly Election, 1982
WB-CHOPRA
CPM 52.0%won by 4.8%INC 47.2%
What changed here
DerivedCommunist Party of India (Marxist) held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 23.2% to 4.8%.
- Runner-up changedSecond place passed from Independent (IND) to Indian National Congress (INC).
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 99.2% of the vote between them, up from 61.5% — 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
71,710
Margin
3,407
4.75%
Candidates
3 contested · winner CPMSince 1977
Derived- Winner then
- CPM
- Winner now
- CPM
- CPM–INC swing
- −27.6%
- CPM share
- 42.4% → 52.0%
- INC share
- 10.0% → 47.2%
- Turnout
- — → —