Constituency
261. Raniganj
Community mirrorWest Bengal Assembly Election, 1982
WB-RANIGANJ
CPM 58.3%won by 24.5%INC 33.8%
What changed here
DerivedCommunist Party of India (Marxist) held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 44.5% to 24.5%.
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 92.1% of the vote between them, up from 74.3% — 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
69,022
Margin
16,883
24.46%
Candidates
6 contested · winner CPM- 1HARADHAN ROYCommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM40,21458.3%
- 2HARE KRISHNA GOSWAWAMIIndian National Congress · INC23,33133.8%
- 3LAKSHMAN RUIDASIndependent · IND2,3723.4%
- 4AMAR NATH KESHRIBharatiya Janata Party · BJP2,0903.0%
- 5SAMBHU SAWIndependent · IND7291.1%
- 6KAMLESH SINGHIndependent · IND2860.4%
Since 1977
Derived- Winner then
- CPM
- Winner now
- CPM
- CPM–INC swing
- −20.1%
- CPM share
- 59.4% → 58.3%
- INC share
- 14.9% → 33.8%
- Turnout
- — → —