Constituency
74. Krishnaganj
Community mirrorWest Bengal Assembly Election, 1982
WB-KRISHNAGANJ
CPM 48.6%won by 1.5%INC 47.1%
What changed here
DerivedCommunist Party of India (Marxist) held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 23.7% to 1.5%.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 4.8% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
- Runner-up changedSecond place passed from Janata Party (JNP) to Indian National Congress (INC).
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 95.8% of the vote between them, up from 83.1% — 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
74,012
Margin
1,115
1.51%
Candidates
5 contested · winner CPMSince 1977
Derived- Winner then
- CPM
- Winner now
- CPM
- CPM–INC swing
- −37.2%
- CPM share
- 53.4% → 48.6%
- INC share
- 14.7% → 47.1%
- Turnout
- — → —