Constituency
70. Palashipara
Community mirrorWest Bengal Assembly Election, 1982
WB-PALASHIPARA
CPM 49.9%won by 5.5%INC 44.4%
What changed here
DerivedCommunist Party of India (Marxist) held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 23.2% to 5.5%.
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 94.3% of the vote between them, up from 64.2% — 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
87,721
Margin
4,856
5.54%
Candidates
4 contested · winner CPM- 1MADHABENDU MAHANTACommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM43,78049.9%
- 2KARTIC CHANDRA BISWASIndian National Congress · INC38,92444.4%
- 3SHAIKH KHODA BUXSUC · SUC4,3785.0%
- 4RANJIT KUMAR BOSEIndependent · IND6390.7%
Since 1977
Derived- Winner then
- CPM
- Winner now
- CPM
- CPM–INC swing
- −17.7%
- CPM share
- 43.7% → 49.9%
- INC share
- 20.5% → 44.4%
- Turnout
- — → —