Constituency
72. Kaliganj
Community mirrorWest Bengal Assembly Election, 1982
WB-KALIGANJ
RSP 38.2%won by 2.6%INC 35.5%
What changed here
DerivedRashtriya Sarvajan Party held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 5.9% to 2.6%.
- Runner-up changedSecond place passed from Janata Party (JNP) to Indian National Congress (INC).
- Multi-cornered3 candidates cleared 5% — a genuinely multi-cornered fight.
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
75,648
Margin
1,995
2.64%
Candidates
5 contested · winner RSP- 1DEBSARAN GHOSHRashtriya Sarvajan Party · RSP28,87338.2%
- 2SHIBSANKAR BANDYOPADHAYAYIndian National Congress · INC26,87835.5%
- 3RAHMAN S.M. FAZLURIndependent · IND17,65023.3%
- 4MUSTAFIZUR RAHAMANIndependent · IND1,1311.5%
- 5PROBODH RANJAN RAJWARIndependent · IND1,1161.5%
Since 1977
Derived- Winner then
- RSP
- Winner now
- RSP
- RSP–INC swing
- −15.6%
- RSP share
- 41.2% → 38.2%
- INC share
- 23.0% → 35.5%
- Turnout
- — → —