Constituency
241. Raghunathpur
Community mirrorWest Bengal Assembly Election, 1982
WB-RAGHUNATHPUR
CPM 42.3%won by 10.7%INC 31.6%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: SUC (SUC) lost it to Communist Party of India (Marxist) (CPM), which now leads by 10.7%.
- CPM vote shareCPM went from 25.7% to 42.3% of the vote here (+16.7%).
- Runner-up changedSecond place passed from Janata Party (JNP) to Indian National Congress (INC).
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 74.0% of the vote between them, up from 55.8% — a tighter two-way contest.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
—
not in source
Turnout
—
not in source
Valid votes
59,848
Margin
6,410
10.71%
Candidates
5 contested · winner CPM- 1NATABAR BAGDICommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM25,34542.3%
- 2DURGADAS BOURIIndian National Congress · INC18,93531.6%
- 3BIJOY BOURISUC · SUC13,30722.2%
- 4PHANI BHUSAN MONDALJanata Party · JNP1,5602.6%
- 5SUDHIR CHANDRA LOHARBharatiya Janata Party · BJP7011.2%
Since 1977
Derived- Winner then
- SUC
- Winner now
- CPMflipped
- CPM–INC swing
- +3.5%
- CPM share
- 25.7% → 42.3%
- INC share
- 18.5% → 31.6%
- Turnout
- — → —