Constituency
239. Purulia
Community mirrorWest Bengal Assembly Election, 1982
WB-PURULIA
ICS 52.2%won by 9.3%CPM 42.9%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Communist Party of India (Marxist) (CPM) lost it to ICS (ICS), which now leads by 9.3%.
- ICS vote shareICS went from 0.0% to 52.2% of the vote here (+52.2%).
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 95.1% of the vote between them, up from 67.6% — 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
76,558
Margin
7,142
9.33%
Candidates
4 contested · winner ICS- 1SUKUMAR ROYICS · ICS39,97852.2%
- 2MAHADEB MUKHERJEECommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM32,83642.9%
- 3SUNIL MAHATOIndependent · IND3,1224.1%
- 4RADHA RAMAN GHOSHIndependent · IND6220.8%
Since 1977
Derived- Winner then
- CPM
- Winner now
- ICSflipped
- ICS–CPM swing
- +52.1%
- ICS share
- 0.0% → 52.2%
- CPM share
- 42.8% → 42.9%
- Turnout
- — → —