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Constituency

174. Kalyanpur

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West Bengal Assembly Election, 1982

WB-KALYANPUR

CPM 55.0%won by 12.7%ICS 42.3%

What changed here

Derived

Communist Party of India (Marxist) held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 20.3% to 12.7%.

  • New challengerICS (ICS) finished second with 42.3% — it did not contest here in 1977.
  • Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 97.3% of the vote between them, up from 76.1% — a tighter two-way contest.

Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.

Electorate
not in source
Turnout
not in source
Valid votes
71,429
Margin
9,067
12.69%

Since 1977

Derived
Winner then
CPM
Winner now
CPM
CPMICS swing
−35.5%
CPM share
48.2% 55.0%
ICS share
0.0% 42.3%
Turnout