Constituency
223. Midnapore
Community mirrorWest Bengal Assembly Election, 1982
WB-MIDNAPORE
CPI 52.6%won by 8.7%ICS 43.9%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Janata Party (JNP) lost it to Communist Party of India (CPI), which now leads by 8.7%.
- CPI vote shareCPI went from 26.7% to 52.6% of the vote here (+25.9%).
- New challengerICS (ICS) finished second with 43.9% — it did not contest here in 1977.
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 96.5% of the vote between them, up from 60.0% — 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
89,391
Margin
7,764
8.69%
Candidates
5 contested · winner CPI- 1KAMAKHYA GHOSHCommunist Party of India · CPI47,02052.6%
- 2SAMIR ROYICS · ICS39,25643.9%
- 3KHAGEN SINGHA DEBIndependent · IND1,6011.8%
- 4GHOSH PHANI BHUSANIndependent · IND1,1201.3%
- 5PADMALOCHAN CHANDA ROYIndependent · IND3940.4%
Since 1977
Derived- Winner then
- JNP
- Winner now
- CPIflipped
- CPI–ICS swing
- −18.0%
- CPI share
- 26.7% → 52.6%
- ICS share
- 0.0% → 43.9%
- Turnout
- — → —