Constituency
36. Tapan
Community mirrorWest Bengal Assembly Election, 1982
WB-TAPAN
RSP 54.0%won by 10.2%INC 43.9%
What changed here
DerivedRashtriya Sarvajan Party held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 37.3% to 10.2%.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 8.8% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 97.9% of the vote between them, up from 88.3% — a tighter two-way contest.
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Electorate
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Turnout
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Valid votes
82,941
Margin
8,447
10.18%
Candidates
5 contested · winner RSP- 1KHARA SORENRashtriya Sarvajan Party · RSP44,82654.0%
- 2JAPAN HASDAIndian National Congress · INC36,37943.9%
- 3PARESH HASDAIndependent · IND9671.2%
- 4MARDI HAKAIJanata Party · JNP5400.7%
- 5LAKSHMI RAM HEMBRAMIndependent · IND2290.3%
Since 1977
Derived- Winner then
- RSP
- Winner now
- RSP
- RSP–INC swing
- −27.1%
- RSP share
- 62.8% → 54.0%
- INC share
- 25.5% → 43.9%
- Turnout
- — → —