Constituency
88. Ashokenagar
Community mirrorWest Bengal Assembly Election, 1982
WB-ASHOKENAGAR
CPM 59.1%won by 28.1%IND 31.0%
What changed here
DerivedCommunist Party of India (Marxist) held the seat; the winning margin widened from 23.8% to 28.1%.
- Safe seatCommunist Party of India (Marxist) won by more than 25 points — a stronghold, not a contest.
- Multi-cornered3 candidates cleared 5% — a genuinely multi-cornered fight.
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
79,411
Margin
22,304
28.09%
Candidates
5 contested · winner CPM- 1NANI KARCommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM46,89359.1%
- 2KESHAB CHANDRA BHATTACHARYAIndependent · IND24,58931.0%
- 3KRISHNA CHATTERJEEICS · ICS6,2777.9%
- 4KSHUDIRAM MONDALIndependent · IND1,1301.4%
- 5DIPAK ROYIndependent · IND5220.7%
Since 1977
Derived- Winner then
- CPM
- Winner now
- CPM
- CPM–IND swing
- +4.3%
- CPM share
- 58.1% → 59.1%
- IND share
- 34.3% → 31.0%
- Turnout
- — → —