Constituency
42. Harishchandrapur
Community mirrorWest Bengal Assembly Election, 1982
WB-HARISHCHANDRAPUR
INC 34.8%won by 12.4%FBL 22.4%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Janata Party (JNP) lost it to Indian National Congress (INC), which now leads by 12.4%.
- INC vote shareINC went from 14.1% to 34.8% of the vote here (+20.8%).
- New challengerFBL (FBL) finished second with 22.4% — it did not contest here in 1977.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 57.2% between them, down from 84.9% — the field split more ways.
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
74,731
Margin
9,280
12.42%
Candidates
7 contested · winner INC- 1ABDUL WAHEDIndian National Congress · INC26,02834.8%
- 2SUBHASH CHAUDHURYFBL · FBL16,74822.4%
- 3BIRENEDRA KUMAR MAITRAJanata Party · JNP15,64120.9%
- 4ELIAS RAZIIndependent · IND14,43419.3%
- 5GOPALJI KEDIAIndependent · IND8061.1%
- 6MD. NAUSAD ALIIndependent · IND8021.1%
- 7RAZZAKIndependent · IND2720.4%
Since 1977
Derived- Winner then
- JNP
- Winner now
- INCflipped
- INC–FBL swing
- −1.7%
- INC share
- 14.1% → 34.8%
- FBL share
- 0.0% → 22.4%
- Turnout
- — → —