Constituency
489. Alipurduars
Community mirrorWest Bengal · India Lok Sabha Election, 1980
IN-ALIPURDUARS
RSP 60.0%won by 28.5%INCI 31.5%
What changed here
DerivedRashtriya 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- 1PIUS TIRKEYRashtriya Sarvajan Party · RSP2,43,48560.0%
- 2TUNA ORAONINCI · INCI1,28,02831.5%
- 3DENIS LAKRAINCU · INCU29,9907.4%
- 4GOPAL ORAONIndependent · IND4,3081.1%
Since 1977
Derived- Winner then
- RSP
- Winner now
- RSP
- RSP–INCI swing
- −28.4%
- RSP share
- 56.9% → 60.0%
- INCI share
- 0.0% → 31.5%
- Turnout
- 56.4% → 61.4%