Constituency
78. Santipur
Community mirrorWest Bengal Assembly Election, 1982
WB-SANTIPUR
IND 52.1%won by 9.6%INC 42.5%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: RCI (RCI) lost it to Independent (IND), which now leads by 9.6%.
- IND vote shareIND went from 1.7% to 52.1% of the vote here (+50.5%).
- Runner-up changedSecond place passed from Janata Party (JNP) to Indian National Congress (INC).
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 94.7% of the vote between them, up from 83.8% — 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
81,550
Margin
7,857
9.63%
Candidates
3 contested · winner IND- 1BIMALANANDA MUKHERJEEIndependent · IND42,52552.1%
- 2ASAMANJA DEIndian National Congress · INC34,66842.5%
- 3DILIP DAS (PINTOO)Independent · IND4,3575.3%
Since 1977
Derived- Winner then
- RCI
- Winner now
- INDflipped
- IND–INC swing
- +20.8%
- IND share
- 1.7% → 52.1%
- INC share
- 12.8% → 42.5%
- Turnout
- — → —