Constituency
109. Sonarpur
Community mirrorWest Bengal Assembly Election, 1982
WB-SONARPUR
CPM 65.4%won by 30.7%ICS 34.6%
What changed here
DerivedCommunist 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
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Turnout
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Valid votes
81,206
Margin
24,942
30.71%
Candidates
2 contested · winner CPM- 1GANGADHAR NASKARCommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM53,07465.4%
- 2RAMKANTA MANDALICS · ICS28,13234.6%
Since 1977
Derived- Winner then
- CPM
- Winner now
- CPM
- CPM–ICS swing
- −38.0%
- CPM share
- 68.7% → 65.4%
- ICS share
- 0.0% → 34.6%
- Turnout
- — → —