Constituency
256. Sonamukhi
Community mirrorWest Bengal Assembly Election, 1982
WB-SONAMUKHI
CPM 56.6%won by 13.2%INC 43.4%
What changed here
DerivedCommunist Party of India (Marxist) held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 30.7% to 13.2%.
- Runner-up changedSecond place passed from Janata Party (JNP) to Indian National Congress (INC).
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 100.0% of the vote between them, up from 74.8% — 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
75,234
Margin
9,914
13.18%
Candidates
2 contested · winner CPM- 1SUKHENDU KHANCommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM42,57456.6%
- 2SASTHI BAURIIndian National Congress · INC32,66043.4%
Since 1977
Derived- Winner then
- CPM
- Winner now
- CPM
- CPM–INC swing
- −20.2%
- CPM share
- 52.8% → 56.6%
- INC share
- 19.4% → 43.4%
- Turnout
- — → —