Constituency
231. Jhargram
Community mirrorWest Bengal Assembly Election, 1982
WB-JHARGRAM
CPM 48.7%won by 19.6%INC 29.1%
What changed here
DerivedCommunist Party of India (Marxist) held the seat; the winning margin widened from 17.2% to 19.6%.
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 77.7% of the vote between them, up from 64.8% — a tighter two-way 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
81,732
Margin
16,021
19.60%
Candidates
3 contested · winner CPMSince 1977
Derived- Winner then
- CPM
- Winner now
- CPM
- CPM–INC swing
- +2.4%
- CPM share
- 41.0% → 48.7%
- INC share
- 23.8% → 29.1%
- Turnout
- — → —