Constituency
194. Arambagh
Community mirrorWest Bengal Assembly Election, 1982
WB-ARAMBAGH
INC 48.1%won by 3.1%IND 45.0%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Janata Party (JNP) lost it to Indian National Congress (INC), which now leads by 3.1%.
- INC vote shareINC went from 15.6% to 48.1% of the vote here (+32.5%).
- New challengerIndependent (IND) finished second with 45.0% — it polled just 1.0% in 1977.
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 93.0% of the vote between them, up from 83.4% — 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
88,767
Margin
2,743
3.09%
Candidates
3 contested · winner INC- 1ABDUL MANNANIndian National Congress · INC42,66848.1%
- 2CHAKARBORTI RANJIT (CHANDAN)Independent · IND39,92545.0%
- 3AJOY KUMAR DEYJanata Party · JNP6,1747.0%
Since 1977
Derived- Winner then
- JNP
- Winner now
- INCflipped
- INC–IND swing
- −11.5%
- INC share
- 15.6% → 48.1%
- IND share
- 1.0% → 45.0%
- Turnout
- — → —