Constituency
101. Basanti
Community mirrorWest Bengal Assembly Election, 1982
WB-BASANTI
RSP 59.6%won by 20.6%INC 39.1%
What changed here
DerivedRashtriya Sarvajan Party held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 27.4% to 20.6%.
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 98.7% of the vote between them, up from 77.2% — 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
81,528
Margin
16,775
20.58%
Candidates
3 contested · winner RSP- 1SUBHAS NASKARRashtriya Sarvajan Party · RSP48,61559.6%
- 2BIPINBEHARI SARDARIndian National Congress · INC31,84039.1%
- 3SUJIT MANDALJanata Party · JNP1,0731.3%
Since 1977
Derived- Winner then
- RSP
- Winner now
- RSP
- RSP–INC swing
- −6.8%
- RSP share
- 52.3% → 59.6%
- INC share
- 24.9% → 39.1%
- Turnout
- — → —