Constituency
265. Durgapur-Ii
Community mirrorWest Bengal Assembly Election, 1982
WB-DURGAPUR-II
CPM 55.1%won by 13.6%INC 41.5%
What changed here
DerivedCommunist Party of India (Marxist) held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 40.8% to 13.6%.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 9.0% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 96.6% of the vote between them, up from 87.4% — 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
95,663
Margin
12,978
13.57%
Candidates
5 contested · winner CPM- 1TARUN CHATTERJEECommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM52,68755.1%
- 2BAREN ROYIndian National Congress · INC39,70941.5%
- 3RATH TUDUIndependent · IND1,7851.9%
- 4AMAL MAJIJanata Party · JNP1,3211.4%
- 5SARAT CHANDRA SENAPATIIndependent · IND1610.2%
Since 1977
Derived- Winner then
- CPM
- Winner now
- CPM
- CPM–INC swing
- −27.2%
- CPM share
- 64.1% → 55.1%
- INC share
- 23.3% → 41.5%
- Turnout
- — → —