Constituency
245. Raipur
Community mirrorWest Bengal Assembly Election, 1982
WB-RAIPUR
CPM 50.0%won by 15.3%INC 34.7%
What changed here
DerivedCommunist Party of India (Marxist) held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 22.5% to 15.3%.
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 84.7% of the vote between them, up from 66.1% — 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
83,196
Margin
12,715
15.28%
Candidates
5 contested · winner CPM- 1UPEN KISKUCommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM41,60950.0%
- 2BHOBATOSH SARENIndian National Congress · INC28,89434.7%
- 3LABU MURMUIndependent · IND8,32510.0%
- 4CHITTARANJAN MANDIIndependent · IND3,5974.3%
- 5DHANANJOY HANSDAIndependent · IND7710.9%
Since 1977
Derived- Winner then
- CPM
- Winner now
- CPM
- CPM–INC swing
- −7.2%
- CPM share
- 44.3% → 50.0%
- INC share
- 21.8% → 34.7%
- Turnout
- — → —