Constituency
401. Tripura West
Community mirrorTripura · India Lok Sabha Election, 1980
IN-TRIPURA-WEST
CPM 46.8%won by 13.1%INCI 33.8%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: BLD (BLD) lost it to Communist Party of India (Marxist) (CPM), which now leads by 13.1%.
- CPM vote shareCPM went from 26.0% to 46.8% of the vote here (+20.9%).
- New challengerINCI (INCI) finished second with 33.8% — it did not contest here in 1977.
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 80.6% of the vote between them, up from 66.6% — a tighter two-way contest.
- TurnoutTurnout rose 7.8% to 79.1%.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
5,35,288
Turnout
79.1%
Valid votes
4,23,491
Margin
55,345
13.07%
Candidates
6 contested · winner CPM- 1AJOY BISWASCommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM1,98,33546.8%
- 2ASHOK KR. BHATTACHARYAINCI · INCI1,42,99033.8%
- 3BISWA KUMAR DEB BARMATUS · TUS50,55511.9%
- 4BHUBAN BIJOY MAJUMDERIndependent · IND21,3155.0%
- 5DWIJEN DEYJanata Party · JNP5,6571.3%
- 6TARIT MOHAN DAS GUPTAINCU · INCU4,6391.1%
Since 1977
Derived- Winner then
- BLD
- Winner now
- CPMflipped
- CPM–INCI swing
- −12.9%
- CPM share
- 26.0% → 46.8%
- INCI share
- 0.0% → 33.8%
- Turnout
- 71.3% → 79.1%