Constituency
34. Itahar
Community mirrorWest Bengal Assembly Election, 1982
WB-ITAHAR
ICS 53.1%won by 8.9%CPI 44.2%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Indian National Congress (INC) lost it to ICS (ICS), which now leads by 8.9%.
- ICS vote shareICS went from 0.0% to 53.1% of the vote here (+53.1%).
- New challengerCommunist Party of India (CPI) finished second with 44.2% — it did not contest here in 1977.
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 97.3% of the vote between them, up from 83.6% — 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
79,995
Margin
7,157
8.95%
Candidates
4 contested · winner ICS- 1ABEDIN ZAINALICS · ICS42,49653.1%
- 2CHATTERJEE BASANTA LALCommunist Party of India · CPI35,33944.2%
- 3SWAPNA DASIndependent · IND1,2041.5%
- 4JITENDRA NATH SARKARLKD · LKD9561.2%
Since 1977
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- ICSflipped
- ICS–CPI swing
- +8.9%
- ICS share
- 0.0% → 53.1%
- CPI share
- 0.0% → 44.2%
- Turnout
- — → —