Constituency
119. Diamond Harbour
Community mirrorWest Bengal Assembly Election, 1982
WB-DIAMOND-HARBOUR
CPM 62.3%won by 26.3%INC 36.1%
What changed here
DerivedCommunist Party of India (Marxist) held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 28.5% to 26.3%.
- Runner-up changedSecond place passed from Janata Party (JNP) to Indian National Congress (INC).
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 98.4% of the vote between them, up from 91.6% — 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
77,101
Margin
20,262
26.28%
Candidates
3 contested · winner CPM- 1ABDUL QUIYAM MOLLACommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM48,06962.3%
- 2DIBAKAR GHOSHIndian National Congress · INC27,80736.1%
- 3GOPAL BARMANJanata Party · JNP1,2251.6%
Since 1977
Derived- Winner then
- CPM
- Winner now
- CPM
- CPM–INC swing
- −25.4%
- CPM share
- 60.0% → 62.3%
- INC share
- 8.4% → 36.1%
- Turnout
- — → —