Constituency
80. Ranaghat East
Community mirrorWest Bengal Assembly Election, 1982
WB-RANAGHAT-EAST
CPM 57.6%won by 16.5%IND 41.1%
What changed here
DerivedCommunist Party of India (Marxist) held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 21.5% to 16.5%.
- Runner-up changedSecond place passed from Indian National Congress (INC) to Independent (IND).
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 98.8% of the vote between them, up from 76.4% — 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
82,246
Margin
13,545
16.47%
Candidates
5 contested · winner CPMSince 1977
Derived- Winner then
- CPM
- Winner now
- CPM
- CPM–IND swing
- −22.6%
- CPM share
- 49.0% → 57.6%
- IND share
- 9.9% → 41.1%
- Turnout
- — → —