Constituency
39. Habibpur
Community mirrorWest Bengal Assembly Election, 1982
WB-HABIBPUR
CPM 48.5%won by 0.7%INC 47.7%
What changed here
DerivedCommunist Party of India (Marxist) held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 22.6% to 0.7%.
- Runner-up changedSecond place passed from Janata Party (JNP) to Indian National Congress (INC).
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 96.2% of the vote between them, up from 67.7% — 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
68,496
Margin
484
0.71%
Candidates
3 contested · winner CPM- 1SARKAR MURMUCommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM33,18748.5%
- 2MASHI CHARAN TUDUIndian National Congress · INC32,70347.7%
- 3GOPI NATH SORENIndependent · IND2,6063.8%
Since 1977
Derived- Winner then
- CPM
- Winner now
- CPM
- CPM–INC swing
- −28.5%
- CPM share
- 45.2% → 48.5%
- INC share
- 16.0% → 47.7%
- Turnout
- — → —