Constituency
280. Katwa
Community mirrorWest Bengal Assembly Election, 1982
WB-KATWA
CPM 53.3%won by 10.2%INC 43.1%
What changed here
DerivedCommunist Party of India (Marxist) held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 40.0% to 10.2%.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 7.8% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
- Runner-up changedSecond place passed from Janata Party (JNP) to Indian National Congress (INC).
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 96.5% of the vote between them, up from 82.3% — 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
83,909
Margin
8,566
10.21%
Candidates
4 contested · winner CPM- 1HARAMOHAN SINHACommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM44,76153.3%
- 2SUBRATA MUKHOPADHYAYIndian National Congress · INC36,19543.1%
- 3GANGULY SUBHASISIndependent · IND2,3222.8%
- 4MAHADEB DALALIndependent · IND6310.8%
Since 1977
Derived- Winner then
- CPM
- Winner now
- CPM
- CPM–INC swing
- −33.3%
- CPM share
- 61.2% → 53.3%
- INC share
- 17.7% → 43.1%
- Turnout
- — → —