Constituency
493. Balurghat
Community mirrorWest Bengal · India Lok Sabha Election, 1980
IN-BALURGHAT
RSP 55.8%won by 15.7%INCI 40.0%
What changed here
DerivedRashtriya Sarvajan Party held the seat; the winning margin held roughly steady from 15.3% to 15.7%.
- New challengerINCI (INCI) finished second with 40.0% — it did not contest here in 1977.
- TurnoutTurnout rose 10.0% to 74.1%.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
6,89,058
Turnout
74.1%
Valid votes
5,10,506
Margin
80,328
15.73%
Candidates
5 contested · winner RSP- 1BARMAN PALASRashtriya Sarvajan Party · RSP2,84,76655.8%
- 2RANAJIT SARKARINCI · INCI2,04,43840.0%
- 3SUDHIR CHANDRA ROYJanata Party · JNP9,0921.8%
- 4KHAGENDRA NATH ROYINCU · INCU8,6641.7%
- 5NARAYAN CHANDRA SARKARIndependent · IND3,5460.7%
Since 1977
Derived- Winner then
- RSP
- Winner now
- RSP
- RSP–INCI swing
- −41.9%
- RSP share
- 57.6% → 55.8%
- INCI share
- 0.0% → 40.0%
- Turnout
- 64.1% → 74.1%