Constituency
102. Kultali
Community mirrorWest Bengal Assembly Election, 1982
WB-KULTALI
SUC 45.7%won by 6.9%INC 38.8%
What changed here
DerivedSUC held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 18.2% to 6.9%.
- Runner-up changedSecond place passed from Janata Party (JNP) to Indian National Congress (INC).
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 84.5% of the vote between them, up from 75.5% — 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
77,296
Margin
5,296
6.85%
Candidates
3 contested · winner SUC- 1PRABODH PURKAITSUC · SUC35,32145.7%
- 2ARABINDA NASKARIndian National Congress · INC30,02538.8%
- 3SREEDHAR CHANDRA MANDALCommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM11,95015.5%
Since 1977
Derived- Winner then
- SUC
- Winner now
- SUC
- SUC–INC swing
- −23.0%
- SUC share
- 46.8% → 45.7%
- INC share
- 17.0% → 38.8%
- Turnout
- — → —