Constituency
205. Sutahata
Community mirrorWest Bengal Assembly Election, 1982
WB-SUTAHATA
CPM 52.4%won by 6.8%IND 45.5%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Janata Party (JNP) lost it to Communist Party of India (Marxist) (CPM), which now leads by 6.8%.
- CPM vote shareCPM went from 34.7% to 52.4% of the vote here (+17.7%).
- New challengerIndependent (IND) finished second with 45.5% — it polled just 0.5% in 1977.
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 97.9% of the vote between them, up from 72.4% — 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
90,419
Margin
6,183
6.84%
Candidates
5 contested · winner CPMSince 1977
Derived- Winner then
- JNP
- Winner now
- CPMflipped
- CPM–IND swing
- −27.4%
- CPM share
- 34.7% → 52.4%
- IND share
- 0.5% → 45.5%
- Turnout
- — → —