Constituency
46. Englishbazar
Community mirrorWest Bengal Assembly Election, 1982
WB-ENGLISHBAZAR
CPM 46.7%won by 2.2%INC 44.5%
What changed here
DerivedCommunist Party of India (Marxist) held the seat; the winning margin widened from 0.6% to 2.2%.
- Runner-up changedSecond place passed from Janata Party (JNP) to Indian National Congress (INC).
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 91.2% of the vote between them, up from 62.6% — 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
77,103
Margin
1,697
2.20%
Candidates
3 contested · winner CPMSince 1977
Derived- Winner then
- CPM
- Winner now
- CPM
- CPM–INC swing
- −18.0%
- CPM share
- 31.6% → 46.7%
- INC share
- 11.4% → 44.5%
- Turnout
- — → —