Constituency
147. Kabitirtha
Community mirrorWest Bengal Assembly Election, 1982
WB-KABITIRTHA
FBL 47.1%won by 9.1%ICS 38.0%
What changed here
DerivedFBL held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 23.6% to 9.1%.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 4.6% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
- New challengerICS (ICS) finished second with 38.0% — it did not contest here in 1977.
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 85.2% of the vote between them, up from 79.8% — 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
71,502
Margin
6,526
9.13%
Candidates
5 contested · winner FBL- 1KALIMUDDIN SHAMSFBL · FBL33,70947.1%
- 2SAUGATA ROYICS · ICS27,18338.0%
- 3NOOR AHMEDLKD · LKD9,24712.9%
- 4KESHAB KUMAR AGARWALJanata Party · JNP8631.2%
- 5MD. SALIM KHANIndependent · IND5000.7%
Since 1977
Derived- Winner then
- FBL
- Winner now
- FBL
- FBL–ICS swing
- −42.6%
- FBL share
- 51.7% → 47.1%
- ICS share
- 0.0% → 38.0%
- Turnout
- — → —