Constituency
130. Bhatpara
Community mirrorWest Bengal Assembly Election, 1982
WB-BHATPARA
CPM 49.5%won by 0.8%INC 48.7%
What changed here
DerivedCommunist Party of India (Marxist) held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 44.5% to 0.8%.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 13.9% — 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 82.3% — 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
78,146
Margin
611
0.78%
Candidates
4 contested · winner CPM- 1SITARAM GUPTACommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM38,65649.5%
- 2DEBI GHOSALIndian National Congress · INC38,04548.7%
- 3ATWARI DASSLKD · LKD8011.0%
- 4NRIPEN CHOWDHURYIndependent · IND6440.8%
Since 1977
Derived- Winner then
- CPM
- Winner now
- CPM
- CPM–INC swing
- −43.7%
- CPM share
- 63.4% → 49.5%
- INC share
- 18.9% → 48.7%
- Turnout
- — → —