Constituency
128. Bijpur
Community mirrorWest Bengal Assembly Election, 1982
WB-BIJPUR
CPM 57.3%won by 17.3%INC 39.9%
What changed here
DerivedCommunist 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
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Turnout
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Valid votes
75,707
Margin
13,110
17.32%
Candidates
6 contested · winner CPMSince 1977
Derived- Winner then
- CPM
- Winner now
- CPM
- CPM–INC swing
- −21.8%
- CPM share
- 62.5% → 57.3%
- INC share
- 23.3% → 39.9%
- Turnout
- — → —