Constituency
262. Jamuria
Community mirrorWest Bengal Assembly Election, 1982
WB-JAMURIA
CPM 52.4%won by 8.2%ICS 44.2%
What changed here
DerivedCommunist Party of India (Marxist) held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 29.1% to 8.2%.
- New challengerICS (ICS) finished second with 44.2% — it did not contest here in 1977.
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 96.7% of the vote between them, up from 75.3% — 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
69,182
Margin
5,683
8.21%
Candidates
3 contested · winner CPM- 1BIKASH CHOWDHURYCommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM36,27552.4%
- 2PRADIP BHATTACHARYAICS · ICS30,59244.2%
- 3NIREN BOURIIndependent · IND2,3153.3%
Since 1977
Derived- Winner then
- CPM
- Winner now
- CPM
- CPM–ICS swing
- −44.0%
- CPM share
- 52.2% → 52.4%
- ICS share
- 0.0% → 44.2%
- Turnout
- — → —