Constituency
145. Bow Bazar
Community mirrorWest Bengal Assembly Election, 1982
WB-BOW-BAZAR
INC 51.4%won by 6.7%CPM 44.7%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Communist Party of India (Marxist) (CPM) lost it to Indian National Congress (INC), which now leads by 6.7%.
- INC vote shareINC went from 22.5% to 51.4% of the vote here (+28.9%).
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 96.0% of the vote between them, up from 70.7% — 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
50,631
Margin
3,386
6.69%
Candidates
5 contested · winner INCSince 1977
Derived- Winner then
- CPM
- Winner now
- INCflipped
- INC–CPM swing
- +22.7%
- INC share
- 22.5% → 51.4%
- CPM share
- 38.5% → 44.7%
- Turnout
- — → —