Constituency
258. Barabani
Community mirrorWest Bengal Assembly Election, 1982
WB-BARABANI
CPM 52.4%won by 11.4%INC 41.0%
What changed here
DerivedCommunist Party of India (Marxist) held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 15.1% to 11.4%.
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 93.4% of the vote between them, up from 84.1% — 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
69,469
Margin
7,906
11.38%
Candidates
6 contested · winner CPM- 1AJT CHAKRABARTYCommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM36,37852.4%
- 2DHIRAJ SAINIndian National Congress · INC28,47241.0%
- 3NIMAI BOURIIndependent · IND1,5842.3%
- 4SARASAWATI DEVIJharkhand Mukti Morcha · JMM1,2681.8%
- 5BHABANITOSH MUKHERJEEBharatiya Janata Party · BJP1,1851.7%
- 6DEB KUMAR SHARMAIndependent · IND5820.8%
Since 1977
Derived- Winner then
- CPM
- Winner now
- CPM
- CPM–INC swing
- −3.7%
- CPM share
- 49.6% → 52.4%
- INC share
- 34.5% → 41.0%
- Turnout
- — → —