Constituency
73. Chapra
Community mirrorWest Bengal Assembly Election, 1982
WB-CHAPRA
CPM 53.2%won by 12.9%IND 40.3%
What changed here
DerivedCommunist Party of India (Marxist) held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 35.6% to 12.9%.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 7.3% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
- New challengerIndependent (IND) finished second with 40.3% — it did not contest here in 1977.
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 93.4% of the vote between them, up from 85.4% — 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
80,209
Margin
10,335
12.89%
Candidates
5 contested · winner CPM- 1SAHABUDDIN MONDALCommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM42,63453.2%
- 2ARUN BISWASIndependent · IND32,29940.3%
- 3BASUDEB GHOSHBharatiya Janata Party · BJP4,2255.3%
- 4SANATAN MANDALIndependent · IND6160.8%
- 5ARUN MANDALIndependent · IND4350.5%
Since 1977
Derived- Winner then
- CPM
- Winner now
- CPM
- CPM–IND swing
- −47.6%
- CPM share
- 60.5% → 53.2%
- IND share
- 0.0% → 40.3%
- Turnout
- — → —