Constituency
488. Cooch Behar
Community mirrorWest Bengal · India Lok Sabha Election, 1980
IN-COOCH-BEHAR
FBL 59.4%won by 23.1%INCI 36.3%
What changed here
DerivedFBL held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 29.4% to 23.1%.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 5.3% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
- New challengerINCI (INCI) finished second with 36.3% — it did not contest here in 1977.
- TurnoutTurnout rose 10.9% to 72.3%.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
7,08,442
Turnout
72.3%
Valid votes
5,11,872
Margin
1,18,146
23.08%
Candidates
6 contested · winner FBL- 1AMAR ROY PRADHANFBL · FBL3,04,15859.4%
- 2AMBIKA CHARAN ROYINCI · INCI1,86,01236.3%
- 3DHARAMA NARAYAN BARMANJNPS · JNPS11,5322.3%
- 4DURGA CHARAN ROY KAYETIndependent · IND6,7521.3%
- 5PARESH CHANDRA BARMANJanata Party · JNP2,8090.5%
- 6SURENDRA MOHAN ROYIndependent · IND6090.1%
Since 1977
Derived- Winner then
- FBL
- Winner now
- FBL
- FBL–INCI swing
- −41.6%
- FBL share
- 64.7% → 59.4%
- INCI share
- 0.0% → 36.3%
- Turnout
- 61.4% → 72.3%