Constituency
38. Balurghat
Community mirrorWest Bengal Assembly Election, 1982
WB-BALURGHAT
RSP 54.6%won by 11.8%ICS 42.8%
What changed here
DerivedRashtriya Sarvajan Party held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 29.2% to 11.8%.
- New challengerICS (ICS) finished second with 42.8% — it did not contest here in 1977.
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 97.4% of the vote between them, up from 77.2% — 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
75,475
Margin
8,873
11.76%
Candidates
3 contested · winner RSP- 1BISWANATH CHOUDHURYRashtriya Sarvajan Party · RSP41,19754.6%
- 2ASHISH ROYICS · ICS32,32442.8%
- 3JAWHARLAL MAHATAIndependent · IND1,9542.6%
Since 1977
Derived- Winner then
- RSP
- Winner now
- RSP
- RSP–ICS swing
- −41.5%
- RSP share
- 53.2% → 54.6%
- ICS share
- 0.0% → 42.8%
- Turnout
- — → —