Constituency
103. Joynagar
Community mirrorWest Bengal Assembly Election, 1982
WB-JOYNAGAR
SUC 41.0%won by 0.5%ICS 40.5%
What changed here
DerivedSUC held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 25.4% to 0.5%.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 7.6% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
- New challengerICS (ICS) finished second with 40.5% — it did not contest here in 1977.
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 81.4% of the vote between them, up from 71.8% — 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
80,908
Margin
410
0.51%
Candidates
3 contested · winner SUC- 1DEVA PRASAD SARKARSUC · SUC33,14741.0%
- 2KUMUD BHATTACHERJEEICS · ICS32,73740.5%
- 3AMARENDRA NATH DEYCommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM15,02418.6%
Since 1977
Derived- Winner then
- SUC
- Winner now
- SUC
- SUC–ICS swing
- −48.1%
- SUC share
- 48.6% → 41.0%
- ICS share
- 0.0% → 40.5%
- Turnout
- — → —