Constituency
140. Cossipur
Community mirrorWest Bengal Assembly Election, 1982
WB-COSSIPUR
INC 49.3%won by 1.2%CPM 48.1%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Communist Party of India (Marxist) (CPM) lost it to Indian National Congress (INC), which now leads by 1.2%.
- INC vote shareINC went from 29.7% to 49.3% of the vote here (+19.6%).
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 97.5% of the vote between them, up from 72.7% — 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
60,226
Margin
728
1.21%
Candidates
5 contested · winner INCSince 1977
Derived- Winner then
- CPM
- Winner now
- INCflipped
- INC–CPM swing
- +14.5%
- INC share
- 29.7% → 49.3%
- CPM share
- 43.0% → 48.1%
- Turnout
- — → —