Constituency
225. Kharagpur Rural
Community mirrorWest Bengal Assembly Election, 1982
WB-KHARAGPUR-RURAL
CPM 56.1%won by 17.1%IND 39.0%
What changed here
DerivedCommunist Party of India (Marxist) held the seat; the winning margin widened from 0.9% to 17.1%.
- Runner-up changedSecond place passed from Communist Party of India (CPI) to Independent (IND).
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 95.1% of the vote between them, up from 54.0% — 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
74,406
Margin
12,745
17.13%
Candidates
5 contested · winner CPM- 1SK.SIRAJ ALICommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM41,75556.1%
- 2DEBEN DASIndependent · IND29,01039.0%
- 3SASANKA MAHATAIndependent · IND2,1442.9%
- 4LAKSHMI KANTA SENBharatiya Janata Party · BJP8221.1%
- 5ASHOKE DEIndependent · IND6750.9%
Since 1977
Derived- Winner then
- CPM
- Winner now
- CPM
- CPM–IND swing
- −0.2%
- CPM share
- 27.5% → 56.1%
- IND share
- 10.2% → 39.0%
- Turnout
- — → —