Constituency
86. Gaighata
Community mirrorWest Bengal Assembly Election, 1982
WB-GAIGHATA
CPM 55.5%won by 12.8%INC 42.7%
What changed here
DerivedCommunist Party of India (Marxist) held the seat; the winning margin widened from 12.2% to 12.8%.
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 98.2% of the vote between them, up from 86.3% — 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
92,140
Margin
11,767
12.77%
Candidates
4 contested · winner CPMSince 1977
Derived- Winner then
- CPM
- Winner now
- CPM
- CPM–INC swing
- +0.6%
- CPM share
- 49.2% → 55.5%
- INC share
- 37.1% → 42.7%
- Turnout
- — → —