Constituency
95. Basirhat
Community mirrorWest Bengal Assembly Election, 1982
WB-BASIRHAT
CPM 54.5%won by 9.0%ICS 45.5%
What changed here
DerivedCommunist Party of India (Marxist) held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 25.0% to 9.0%.
- New challengerICS (ICS) finished second with 45.5% — it did not contest here in 1977.
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 100.0% of the vote between them, up from 68.5% — 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
89,897
Margin
8,083
8.99%
Candidates
2 contested · winner CPM- 1NARAYANDAS MUKHERJEECommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM48,99054.5%
- 2DEBI PROSAD NANDAICS · ICS40,90745.5%
Since 1977
Derived- Winner then
- CPM
- Winner now
- CPM
- CPM–ICS swing
- −37.8%
- CPM share
- 46.8% → 54.5%
- ICS share
- 0.0% → 45.5%
- Turnout
- — → —