Constituency
222. Salbani
Community mirrorWest Bengal Assembly Election, 1982
WB-SALBANI
CPM 56.8%won by 25.3%INC 31.5%
What changed here
DerivedCommunist Party of India (Marxist) held the seat; the winning margin widened from 17.7% to 25.3%.
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 88.3% of the vote between them, up from 69.4% — a tighter two-way contest.
- Safe seatCommunist Party of India (Marxist) won by more than 25 points — a stronghold, not a contest.
- Multi-cornered3 candidates cleared 5% — a genuinely multi-cornered fight.
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
74,673
Margin
18,899
25.31%
Candidates
4 contested · winner CPM- 1SUNDAR HAZRACommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM42,42856.8%
- 2KALI SADHAN MAHATAIndian National Congress · INC23,52931.5%
- 3SUSIL MAHATAIndependent · IND7,95010.6%
- 4RATHIDRA NATH SANYALIndependent · IND7661.0%
Since 1977
Derived- Winner then
- CPM
- Winner now
- CPM
- CPM–INC swing
- +7.6%
- CPM share
- 43.5% → 56.8%
- INC share
- 25.9% → 31.5%
- Turnout
- — → —