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Constituency

250. Barjora

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West Bengal Assembly Election, 1982

WB-BARJORA

CPM 54.0%won by 11.1%INC 42.9%

What changed here

Derived

Communist Party of India (Marxist) held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 43.1% to 11.1%.

  • Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 9.6% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
  • Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 96.9% of the vote between them, up from 84.2% — 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
88,846
Margin
9,876
11.12%

Since 1977

Derived
Winner then
CPM
Winner now
CPM
CPMINC swing
−32.0%
CPM share
63.6% 54.0%
INC share
20.5% 42.9%
Turnout