Constituency
491. Darjeeling
Community mirrorWest Bengal · India Lok Sabha Election, 1980
IN-DARJEELING
CPM 45.7%won by 4.5%INCI 41.3%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Indian National Congress (INC) lost it to Communist Party of India (Marxist) (CPM), which now leads by 4.5%.
- CPM vote shareCPM went from 34.8% to 45.7% of the vote here (+11.0%).
- New challengerINCI (INCI) finished second with 41.3% — it did not contest here in 1977.
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 87.0% of the vote between them, up from 76.6% — a tighter two-way contest.
- TurnoutTurnout rose 12.9% to 54.8%.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
7,40,258
Turnout
54.8%
Valid votes
4,05,752
Margin
18,161
4.48%
Candidates
9 contested · winner CPM- 1ANANDA PATHAKCommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM1,85,61245.7%
- 2K.B. CHETTRIINCI · INCI1,67,45141.3%
- 3CHAUDHARY ABDUL KARIMINCU · INCU20,1535.0%
- 4PAUL MANTOSHJNPS · JNPS8,4682.1%
- 5MOHHAMMED EKRAMUL HAQUEJanata Party · JNP8,1232.0%
- 6LAKSHMI KANTA JOSHIIndependent · IND5,1921.3%
- 7TAPAN KUMAR BISWASIndependent · IND5,0451.2%
- 8RANENDRA NATH BARMAIndependent · IND3,9601.0%
- 9SAMPAD KUMAR ROYIndependent · IND1,7480.4%
Since 1977
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- CPMflipped
- CPM–INCI swing
- −30.3%
- CPM share
- 34.8% → 45.7%
- INCI share
- 0.0% → 41.3%
- Turnout
- 41.9% → 54.8%