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Constituency

181. Champdani

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West Bengal Assembly Election, 1982

WB-CHAMPDANI

CPM 52.6%won by 7.4%INC 45.3%

What changed here

Derived

Communist Party of India (Marxist) held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 47.1% to 7.4%.

  • Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 11.0% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
  • Runner-up changedSecond place passed from Janata Party (JNP) to Indian National Congress (INC).
  • Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 97.9% of the vote between them, up from 80.1% — 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
89,899
Margin
6,619
7.36%

Since 1977

Derived
Winner then
CPM
Winner now
CPM
CPMINC swing
−42.8%
CPM share
63.6% 52.6%
INC share
13.5% 45.3%
Turnout