Constituency

224. Kharagpur Town

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West Bengal Assembly Election, 1982

WB-KHARAGPUR-TOWN

ICS 52.5%won by 11.7%CPM 40.8%

What changed here

Derived

The seat changed hands: Janata Party (JNP) lost it to ICS (ICS), which now leads by 11.7%.

ICS vote shareICS went from 0.0% to 52.5% of the vote here (+52.5%).
Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 93.4% of the vote between them, up from 57.8% — 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

55,448

Margin

6,489

11.70%

Candidates

6 contested · winner ICS

1GYAN SINGH SOHANPAL ICS · ICS29,13452.5%
2JATIN MITRA Communist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM22,64540.8%
3PRADIP KUMAR PATNAIK Bharatiya Janata Party · BJP2,7925.0%
4SWADESH RANJAN BAG Independent · IND4150.7%
5T. KABU RAO Independent · IND2590.5%
6INDRA MISHRA Independent · IND2030.4%

Since 1977

Derived

Winner then: JNP
Winner now: ICSflipped
ICS–CPM swing: +35.2%
ICS share: 0.0% → 52.5%
CPM share: 23.5% → 40.8%
Turnout: — → —

223. Midnapore 225. Kharagpur Rural

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