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489. Alipurduars

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West Bengal · India Lok Sabha Election, 1980

IN-ALIPURDUARS

RSP 60.0%won by 28.5%INCI 31.5%

What changed here

Derived

Rashtriya Sarvajan Party held the seat; the winning margin widened from 13.7% to 28.5%.

  • New challengerINCI (INCI) finished second with 31.5% — it did not contest here in 1977.
  • Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 91.5% between them, down from 100.0% — the field split more ways.
  • TurnoutTurnout rose 5.0% to 61.4%.

Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.

Electorate
6,60,771
Turnout
61.4%
Valid votes
4,05,811
Margin
1,15,457
28.45%

Candidates

4 contested · winner RSP
  1. 1PIUS TIRKEYRashtriya Sarvajan Party · RSP2,43,48560.0%
  2. 2TUNA ORAONINCI · INCI1,28,02831.5%
  3. 3DENIS LAKRAINCU · INCU29,9907.4%
  4. 4GOPAL ORAONIndependent · IND4,3081.1%

Since 1977

Derived
Winner then
RSP
Winner now
RSP
RSPINCI swing
−28.4%
RSP share
56.9% 60.0%
INCI share
0.0% 31.5%
Turnout
56.4% 61.4%