Constituency
266. Kanksa
Community mirrorWest Bengal Assembly Election, 1982
WB-KANKSA
CPM 63.3%won by 27.6%INC 35.7%
What changed here
DerivedCommunist Party of India (Marxist) held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 41.6% to 27.6%.
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 98.9% of the vote between them, up from 85.5% — a tighter two-way contest.
- Safe seatCommunist Party of India (Marxist) won by more than 25 points — a stronghold, not a 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
74,742
Margin
20,625
27.59%
Candidates
3 contested · winner CPMSince 1977
Derived- Winner then
- CPM
- Winner now
- CPM
- CPM–INC swing
- −14.0%
- CPM share
- 63.5% → 63.3%
- INC share
- 22.0% → 35.7%
- Turnout
- — → —