Constituency
174. Kalyanpur
Community mirrorWest Bengal Assembly Election, 1982
WB-KALYANPUR
CPM 55.0%won by 12.7%ICS 42.3%
What changed here
DerivedCommunist 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
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Turnout
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Valid votes
71,429
Margin
9,067
12.69%
Candidates
4 contested · winner CPM- 1NITAI CHARAN ADAKCommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM39,29555.0%
- 2ASIT MITRAICS · ICS30,22842.3%
- 3KARTICK SARIKETBharatiya Janata Party · BJP1,1981.7%
- 4NAIMAI MALLIKIndependent · IND7081.0%
Since 1977
Derived- Winner then
- CPM
- Winner now
- CPM
- CPM–ICS swing
- −35.5%
- CPM share
- 48.2% → 55.0%
- ICS share
- 0.0% → 42.3%
- Turnout
- — → —