Constituency
240. Para
Community mirrorWest Bengal Assembly Election, 1982
WB-PARA
CPM 50.3%won by 12.2%INC 38.1%
What changed here
DerivedCommunist Party of India (Marxist) held the seat; the winning margin widened from 4.3% to 12.2%.
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 88.4% of the vote between them, up from 49.5% — 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
69,024
Margin
8,387
12.15%
Candidates
5 contested · winner CPM- 1GOBINDA BOURICommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM34,69250.3%
- 2SARAT DASIndian National Congress · INC26,30538.1%
- 3SAILEN BOURISUC · SUC5,2157.6%
- 4HAZARI PRASAD RAJWARIndependent · IND2,5963.8%
- 5KALIPADA RAJEWARIndependent · IND2160.3%
Since 1977
Derived- Winner then
- CPM
- Winner now
- CPM
- CPM–INC swing
- +7.8%
- CPM share
- 26.9% → 50.3%
- INC share
- 22.6% → 38.1%
- Turnout
- — → —