Constituency
135. Panihati
Community mirrorWest Bengal Assembly Election, 1982
WB-PANIHATI
CPM 55.7%won by 15.3%INC 40.4%
What changed here
DerivedCommunist Party of India (Marxist) held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 30.7% to 15.3%.
- Runner-up changedSecond place passed from Janata Party (JNP) to Indian National Congress (INC).
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 96.1% of the vote between them, up from 77.8% — 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
91,130
Margin
13,984
15.35%
Candidates
4 contested · winner CPMSince 1977
Derived- Winner then
- CPM
- Winner now
- CPM
- CPM–INC swing
- −17.2%
- CPM share
- 54.3% → 55.7%
- INC share
- 21.7% → 40.4%
- Turnout
- — → —