Constituency
108. Jadavpur
Community mirrorWest Bengal Assembly Election, 1982
WB-JADAVPUR
CPM 66.4%won by 34.6%INC 31.9%
What changed here
DerivedCommunist Party of India (Marxist) held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 46.1% to 34.6%.
- Runner-up changedSecond place passed from Janata Party (JNP) to Indian National Congress (INC).
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 98.3% of the vote between them, up from 83.6% — 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
96,433
Margin
33,354
34.59%
Candidates
4 contested · winner CPM- 1SANKAR GUPTACommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM64,07566.4%
- 2SACHIN MUKHERJEEIndian National Congress · INC30,72131.9%
- 3RAMESWER PASMANJanata Party · JNP1,3331.4%
- 4JOGENDRA NATH HALDERIndependent · IND3040.3%
Since 1977
Derived- Winner then
- CPM
- Winner now
- CPM
- CPM–INC swing
- −13.9%
- CPM share
- 64.9% → 66.4%
- INC share
- 16.4% → 31.9%
- Turnout
- — → —