Constituency
276. Kalna
Community mirrorWest Bengal Assembly Election, 1982
WB-KALNA
CPM 56.8%won by 16.0%INC 40.8%
What changed here
DerivedCommunist Party of India (Marxist) held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 33.0% to 16.0%.
- Runner-up changedSecond place passed from Janata Party (JNP) to Indian National Congress (INC).
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 97.6% of the vote between them, up from 79.1% — 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
84,254
Margin
13,464
15.98%
Candidates
3 contested · winner CPM- 1ANJU KARCommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM47,82956.8%
- 2SUDHIR GHOSHIndian National Congress · INC34,36540.8%
- 3GOPAL GARAIIndependent · IND2,0602.4%
Since 1977
Derived- Winner then
- CPM
- Winner now
- CPM
- CPM–INC swing
- −19.2%
- CPM share
- 56.1% → 56.8%
- INC share
- 20.9% → 40.8%
- Turnout
- — → —