Constituency
98. Sandeshkhali
Community mirrorWest Bengal Assembly Election, 1982
WB-SANDESHKHALI
CPM 63.0%won by 26.9%INC 36.1%
What changed here
DerivedCommunist Party of India (Marxist) held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 39.9% to 26.9%.
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 99.1% of the vote between them, up from 81.4% — a tighter two-way contest.
- Safe seatCommunist Party of India (Marxist) won by more than 25 points — a stronghold, not a 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
84,472
Margin
22,752
26.93%
Candidates
3 contested · winner CPMSince 1977
Derived- Winner then
- CPM
- Winner now
- CPM
- CPM–INC swing
- −12.9%
- CPM share
- 60.6% → 63.0%
- INC share
- 20.7% → 36.1%
- Turnout
- — → —