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Constituency

128. Bijpur

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West Bengal Assembly Election, 1982

WB-BIJPUR

CPM 57.3%won by 17.3%INC 39.9%

What changed here

Derived

Communist Party of India (Marxist) held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 39.1% to 17.3%.

  • Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 5.2% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
  • Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 97.2% of the vote between them, up from 85.8% — a tighter two-way contest.

Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.

Electorate
not in source
Turnout
not in source
Valid votes
75,707
Margin
13,110
17.32%

Since 1977

Derived
Winner then
CPM
Winner now
CPM
CPMINC swing
−21.8%
CPM share
62.5% 57.3%
INC share
23.3% 39.9%
Turnout