Constituency
59. Jalangi
Community mirrorWest Bengal Assembly Election, 1982
WB-JALANGI
CPM 52.9%won by 7.3%ICS 45.6%
What changed here
DerivedCommunist Party of India (Marxist) held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 15.7% to 7.3%.
- New challengerICS (ICS) finished second with 45.6% — it did not contest here in 1977.
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 98.5% of the vote between them, up from 69.6% — 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
98,615
Margin
7,209
7.31%
Candidates
3 contested · winner CPM- 1ATAHAR RAHAMANCommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM52,17552.9%
- 2AZIZUR RAHAMANICS · ICS44,96645.6%
- 3PRAFULLA KUAMR SARKARBharatiya Janata Party · BJP1,4741.5%
Since 1977
Derived- Winner then
- CPM
- Winner now
- CPM
- CPM–ICS swing
- −35.3%
- CPM share
- 42.7% → 52.9%
- ICS share
- 0.0% → 45.6%
- Turnout
- — → —