Constituency
67. Barwan
Community mirrorWest Bengal Assembly Election, 1982
WB-BARWAN
RSP 50.5%won by 3.5%INC 47.0%
What changed here
DerivedRashtriya Sarvajan Party held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 36.3% to 3.5%.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 5.9% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 97.4% of the vote between them, up from 76.6% — a tighter two-way contest.
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Electorate
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Turnout
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Valid votes
80,075
Margin
2,825
3.53%
Candidates
3 contested · winner RSP- 1AMALENDRA ROYRashtriya Sarvajan Party · RSP40,42350.5%
- 2ALI HOSSAIN MONDALIndian National Congress · INC37,59847.0%
- 3BODHISATWA MUKHOPADHYAYIndependent · IND2,0542.6%
Since 1977
Derived- Winner then
- RSP
- Winner now
- RSP
- RSP–INC swing
- −32.7%
- RSP share
- 56.4% → 50.5%
- INC share
- 20.2% → 47.0%
- Turnout
- — → —