Constituency
278. Manteswar
Community mirrorWest Bengal Assembly Election, 1982
WB-MANTESWAR
CPM 60.5%won by 21.1%INC 39.5%
What changed here
DerivedCommunist Party of India (Marxist) held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 39.5% to 21.1%.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 3.0% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 100.0% of the vote between them, up from 87.6% — 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
74,341
Margin
15,661
21.07%
Candidates
2 contested · winner CPM- 1HEMANTA ROYCommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM45,00160.5%
- 2TUHIM SAMANTAIndian National Congress · INC29,34039.5%
Since 1977
Derived- Winner then
- CPM
- Winner now
- CPM
- CPM–INC swing
- −18.4%
- CPM share
- 63.6% → 60.5%
- INC share
- 24.1% → 39.5%
- Turnout
- — → —