Constituency
116. Budge Budge
Community mirrorWest Bengal Assembly Election, 1982
WB-BUDGE-BUDGE
CPM 61.4%won by 24.6%INC 36.8%
What changed here
DerivedCommunist Party of India (Marxist) held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 53.7% to 24.6%.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 3.8% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 98.2% of the vote between them, up from 76.8% — 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
65,581
Margin
16,132
24.60%
Candidates
4 contested · winner CPMSince 1977
Derived- Winner then
- CPM
- Winner now
- CPM
- CPM–INC swing
- −29.1%
- CPM share
- 65.3% → 61.4%
- INC share
- 11.6% → 36.8%
- Turnout
- — → —