Constituency
249. Gangajalghati
Community mirrorWest Bengal Assembly Election, 1982
WB-GANGAJALGHATI
CPM 60.3%won by 20.6%INC 39.7%
What changed here
DerivedCommunist Party of India (Marxist) held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 47.5% to 20.6%.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 6.9% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 100.0% of the vote between them, up from 86.9% — 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
75,360
Margin
15,526
20.60%
Candidates
2 contested · winner CPM- 1BOURI NABANICommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM45,44360.3%
- 2GUIRAM MAJIIndian National Congress · INC29,91739.7%
Since 1977
Derived- Winner then
- CPM
- Winner now
- CPM
- CPM–INC swing
- −26.9%
- CPM share
- 67.2% → 60.3%
- INC share
- 19.7% → 39.7%
- Turnout
- — → —