Constituency
402. Tripura East
Community mirrorTripura · India Lok Sabha Election, 1980
IN-TRIPURA-EAST
CPM 48.2%won by 23.1%IND 25.1%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Indian National Congress (INC) lost it to Communist Party of India (Marxist) (CPM), which now leads by 23.1%.
- CPM vote shareCPM went from 43.0% to 48.2% of the vote here (+5.2%).
- New challengerIndependent (IND) finished second with 25.1% — it did not contest here in 1977.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 73.3% between them, down from 90.6% — the field split more ways.
- TurnoutTurnout rose 13.4% to 78.0%.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
5,22,218
Turnout
78.0%
Valid votes
4,07,104
Margin
93,906
23.07%
Candidates
5 contested · winner CPM- 1BAJUBAN RIYANCommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM1,96,19948.2%
- 2RATNAPRAVA DASIndependent · IND1,02,29325.1%
- 3SYAMACHARAN TRIPPURATUS · TUS61,39815.1%
- 4KASHI RAM REANGINCI · INCI44,81911.0%
- 5HANGSADWAJ DEWANJanata Party · JNP2,3950.6%
Since 1977
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- CPMflipped
- CPM–IND swing
- −19.9%
- CPM share
- 43.0% → 48.2%
- IND share
- 0.0% → 25.1%
- Turnout
- 64.6% → 78.0%