Constituency
138. Dum Dum
Community mirrorWest Bengal Assembly Election, 1982
WB-DUM-DUM
CPM 66.2%won by 33.5%INC 32.6%
What changed here
DerivedCommunist Party of India (Marxist) held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 42.9% to 33.5%.
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 98.8% of the vote between them, up from 80.9% — a tighter two-way contest.
- Safe seatCommunist Party of India (Marxist) won by more than 25 points — a stronghold, not a 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
1,03,058
Margin
34,567
33.54%
Candidates
4 contested · winner CPMSince 1977
Derived- Winner then
- CPM
- Winner now
- CPM
- CPM–INC swing
- −9.4%
- CPM share
- 61.9% → 66.2%
- INC share
- 19.0% → 32.6%
- Turnout
- — → —