Constituency
89. Amdanga
Community mirrorWest Bengal Assembly Election, 1982
WB-AMDANGA
CPM 59.0%won by 26.9%MUL 32.1%
What changed here
DerivedCommunist Party of India (Marxist) held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 30.0% to 26.9%.
- Runner-up changedSecond place passed from Janata Party (JNP) to MUL (MUL).
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 91.0% of the vote between them, up from 73.6% — 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
77,822
Margin
20,934
26.90%
Candidates
7 contested · winner CPM- 1HASHIM ABDUL HALIMCommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM45,88459.0%
- 2C.F. ALIMUL · MUL24,95032.1%
- 3ASHOKE KRISHNA DUTTJanata Party · JNP5,3796.9%
- 4DULAL BISWASIndependent · IND5770.7%
- 5DILLON SARKARIndependent · IND4140.5%
- 6KSHUDIRAM MONDALIndependent · IND3310.4%
- 7CHOWDHURY MUFIDUAL ISLAMIndependent · IND2870.4%
Since 1977
Derived- Winner then
- CPM
- Winner now
- CPM
- CPM–MUL swing
- −14.6%
- CPM share
- 51.8% → 59.0%
- MUL share
- 10.3% → 32.1%
- Turnout
- — → —