Constituency
85. Bongaon
Community mirrorWest Bengal Assembly Election, 1982
WB-BONGAON
INC 51.3%won by 4.0%CPM 47.3%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Communist Party of India (Marxist) (CPM) lost it to Indian National Congress (INC), which now leads by 4.0%.
- INC vote shareINC went from 31.6% to 51.3% of the vote here (+19.7%).
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 98.6% of the vote between them, up from 78.7% — 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
90,755
Margin
3,606
3.97%
Candidates
4 contested · winner INC- 1BHUPENDRA NATH SETHIndian National Congress · INC46,54551.3%
- 2RANJIT MITRACommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM42,93947.3%
- 3RANJIT BISWASJanata Party · JNP1,1411.3%
- 4ASHUTOSH PAULIndependent · IND1300.1%
Since 1977
Derived- Winner then
- CPM
- Winner now
- INCflipped
- INC–CPM swing
- +19.6%
- INC share
- 31.6% → 51.3%
- CPM share
- 47.1% → 47.3%
- Turnout
- — → —