Constituency
68. Bharatpur
Community mirrorWest Bengal Assembly Election, 1982
WB-BHARATPUR
RSP 51.6%won by 4.9%INC 46.8%
What changed here
DerivedRashtriya Sarvajan Party held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 32.9% to 4.9%.
- Runner-up changedSecond place passed from Independent (IND) to Indian National Congress (INC).
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 98.4% of the vote between them, up from 70.4% — 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
73,907
Margin
3,594
4.86%
Candidates
3 contested · winner RSP- 1SATYAPADA BHATTACHARYARashtriya Sarvajan Party · RSP38,16951.6%
- 2ABDUL MANNANIndian National Congress · INC34,57546.8%
- 3JAHANGIR HOSSAINLKD · LKD1,1631.6%
Since 1977
Derived- Winner then
- RSP
- Winner now
- RSP
- RSP–INC swing
- −35.4%
- RSP share
- 51.6% → 51.6%
- INC share
- 11.4% → 46.8%
- Turnout
- — → —