Constituency
115. Maheshtala
Community mirrorWest Bengal Assembly Election, 1982
WB-MAHESHTALA
CPM 63.1%won by 26.3%IND 36.9%
What changed here
DerivedCommunist Party of India (Marxist) held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 38.1% to 26.3%.
- Runner-up changedSecond place passed from Janata Party (JNP) to Independent (IND).
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 100.0% of the vote between them, up from 83.2% — 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
64,170
Margin
16,876
26.30%
Candidates
2 contested · winner CPM- 1MIR ABDUS SAYEEDCommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM40,52363.1%
- 2DILIP GHOSEIndependent · IND23,64736.9%
Since 1977
Derived- Winner then
- CPM
- Winner now
- CPM
- CPM–IND swing
- −31.9%
- CPM share
- 60.7% → 63.1%
- IND share
- 2.5% → 36.9%
- Turnout
- — → —