Constituency
196. Chandrakona
Community mirrorWest Bengal Assembly Election, 1982
WB-CHANDRAKONA
CPM 53.1%won by 8.4%IND 44.8%
What changed here
DerivedCommunist Party of India (Marxist) held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 29.0% to 8.4%.
- New challengerIndependent (IND) finished second with 44.8% — it did not contest here in 1977.
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 97.9% of the vote between them, up from 67.3% — 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
85,735
Margin
7,184
8.38%
Candidates
3 contested · winner CPM- 1UMPATI CHAKRABORTYCommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM45,55253.1%
- 2SATYA GHOSHALIndependent · IND38,36844.8%
- 3DARKU MURMUIndependent · IND1,8152.1%
Since 1977
Derived- Winner then
- CPM
- Winner now
- CPM
- CPM–IND swing
- −39.7%
- CPM share
- 48.1% → 53.1%
- IND share
- 0.0% → 44.8%
- Turnout
- — → —