Constituency
112. Behala East
Community mirrorWest Bengal Assembly Election, 1982
WB-BEHALA-EAST
CPM 66.7%won by 35.0%INC 31.8%
What changed here
DerivedCommunist Party of India (Marxist) held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 46.8% to 35.0%.
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 98.5% of the vote between them, up from 84.7% — a tighter two-way contest.
- Safe seatCommunist Party of India (Marxist) won by more than 25 points — a stronghold, not a 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
89,604
Margin
31,324
34.96%
Candidates
6 contested · winner CPMSince 1977
Derived- Winner then
- CPM
- Winner now
- CPM
- CPM–INC swing
- −11.8%
- CPM share
- 65.7% → 66.7%
- INC share
- 19.0% → 31.8%
- Turnout
- — → —