Constituency
118. Falta
Community mirrorWest Bengal Assembly Election, 1982
WB-FALTA
CPM 62.7%won by 26.9%INC 35.8%
What changed here
DerivedCommunist Party of India (Marxist) held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 37.3% to 26.9%.
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 98.5% of the vote between them, up from 91.5% — 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
66,679
Margin
17,916
26.87%
Candidates
4 contested · winner CPM- 1NIMAI DASCommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM41,79762.7%
- 2ASRAF ALIIndian National Congress · INC23,88135.8%
- 3SUSHIL MANDALIndependent · IND6270.9%
- 4SAKTI SADHANIndependent · IND3740.6%
Since 1977
Derived- Winner then
- CPM
- Winner now
- CPM
- CPM–INC swing
- −10.5%
- CPM share
- 64.4% → 62.7%
- INC share
- 27.1% → 35.8%
- Turnout
- — → —