Constituency
490. Jalpaiguri
Community mirrorWest Bengal · India Lok Sabha Election, 1980
IN-JALPAIGURI
CPM 54.0%won by 21.0%INCI 33.0%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Independent (IND) lost it to Communist Party of India (Marxist) (CPM), which now leads by 21.0%.
- CPM vote shareCPM went from 0.0% to 54.0% of the vote here (+54.0%).
- New challengerINCI (INCI) finished second with 33.0% — it did not contest here in 1977.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 87.0% between them, down from 95.5% — the field split more ways.
- TurnoutTurnout rose 8.5% to 65.7%.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
6,56,038
Turnout
65.7%
Valid votes
4,31,204
Margin
90,396
20.96%
Candidates
9 contested · winner CPM- 1SUBODH SENCommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM2,32,75154.0%
- 2SRIRAM SINGHINCI · INCI1,42,35533.0%
- 3RABINDRA NATH SIKDARJanata Party · JNP14,4043.3%
- 4MANMATHA NATH NANDYIndependent · IND13,0783.0%
- 5JAYDEB MANDALSUC · SUC9,2692.1%
- 6ARUN KUMAR MOITRAINCU · INCU8,0281.9%
- 7BANKIM CHANDRA ROYIndependent · IND7,1361.7%
- 8PANCHANAN MALICKIndependent · IND3,4400.8%
- 9CHOUDHARY CHACHAN HARIKISHANIndependent · IND7430.2%
Since 1977
Derived- Winner then
- IND
- Winner now
- CPMflipped
- CPM–INCI swing
- +21.0%
- CPM share
- 0.0% → 54.0%
- INCI share
- 0.0% → 33.0%
- Turnout
- 57.2% → 65.7%