Constituency
131. Jagatdal
Community mirrorWest Bengal Assembly Election, 1982
WB-JAGATDAL
FBL 60.6%won by 26.4%INC 34.2%
What changed here
DerivedFBL held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 42.8% to 26.4%.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 4.7% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 94.8% of the vote between them, up from 87.9% — 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
75,754
Margin
20,019
26.43%
Candidates
4 contested · winner FBL- 1NIHAR BASUFBL · FBL45,91460.6%
- 2MRIGEN LAHIRYIndian National Congress · INC25,89534.2%
- 3SHIO KUMAR SINGHLKD · LKD3,0304.0%
- 4RABINDRA NATH GUHAIndependent · IND9151.2%
Since 1977
Derived- Winner then
- FBL
- Winner now
- FBL
- FBL–INC swing
- −16.4%
- FBL share
- 65.4% → 60.6%
- INC share
- 22.6% → 34.2%
- Turnout
- — → —