Constituency
228. Dantan
Community mirrorWest Bengal Assembly Election, 1982
WB-DANTAN
CPI 69.0%won by 49.1%JNP 19.9%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Janata Party (JNP) lost it to Communist Party of India (CPI), which now leads by 49.1%.
- CPI vote shareCPI went from 34.0% to 69.0% of the vote here (+35.0%).
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 88.9% of the vote between them, up from 74.9% — 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
72,649
Margin
35,638
49.06%
Candidates
5 contested · winner CPI- 1KANAI BHOWMIKCommunist Party of India · CPI50,10969.0%
- 2PRADYOT KUMAR MAHANTIJanata Party · JNP14,47119.9%
- 3PADMALOCHAN SARENIndependent · IND5,7417.9%
- 4CHANDA ROY PADMALOLOCHANIndependent · IND1,9782.7%
- 5BHIM TUDUIndependent · IND3500.5%
Since 1977
Derived- Winner then
- JNP
- Winner now
- CPIflipped
- CPI–JNP swing
- +56.0%
- CPI share
- 34.0% → 69.0%
- JNP share
- 40.9% → 19.9%
- Turnout
- — → —