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Constituency

109. Sonarpur

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West Bengal Assembly Election, 1982

WB-SONARPUR

CPM 65.4%won by 30.7%ICS 34.6%

What changed here

Derived

Communist Party of India (Marxist) held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 49.1% to 30.7%.

  • Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 3.4% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
  • New challengerICS (ICS) finished second with 34.6% — it did not contest here in 1977.
  • Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 100.0% of the vote between them, up from 88.4% — a tighter two-way contest.

Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.

Electorate
not in source
Turnout
not in source
Valid votes
81,206
Margin
24,942
30.71%

Candidates

2 contested · winner CPM
  1. 1GANGADHAR NASKARCommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM53,07465.4%
  2. 2RAMKANTA MANDALICS · ICS28,13234.6%

Since 1977

Derived
Winner then
CPM
Winner now
CPM
CPMICS swing
−38.0%
CPM share
68.7% 65.4%
ICS share
0.0% 34.6%
Turnout