Constituency
165. Shibpur
Community mirrorWest Bengal Assembly Election, 1982
WB-SHIBPUR
FBL 58.0%won by 18.9%INC 39.2%
What changed here
DerivedFBL held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 39.9% to 18.9%.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 3.8% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 97.2% of the vote between them, up from 83.8% — 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
1,05,804
Margin
19,946
18.85%
Candidates
5 contested · winner FBL- 1KANAILAL BHATTACHARYAFBL · FBL61,38158.0%
- 2UTPAL BHOWMICKIndian National Congress · INC41,43539.2%
- 3BIRENDRA KUMAR CHATTERJEEJanata Party · JNP2,1082.0%
- 4JIBANDHAN MUKERJIIndependent · IND4980.5%
- 5BHAB SILPI GOPAL DEYIndependent · IND3820.4%
Since 1977
Derived- Winner then
- FBL
- Winner now
- FBL
- FBL–INC swing
- −21.0%
- FBL share
- 61.8% → 58.0%
- INC share
- 21.9% → 39.2%
- Turnout
- — → —