Constituency
496. Murshidabad
Community mirrorWest Bengal · India Lok Sabha Election, 1980
IN-MURSHIDABAD
CPM 50.3%won by 11.9%INCI 38.4%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: BLD (BLD) lost it to Communist Party of India (Marxist) (CPM), which now leads by 11.9%.
- CPM vote shareCPM went from 0.0% to 50.3% of the vote here (+50.3%).
- New challengerINCI (INCI) finished second with 38.4% — it did not contest here in 1977.
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 88.7% of the vote between them, up from 69.8% — a tighter two-way contest.
- TurnoutTurnout rose 18.7% to 78.7%.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
7,36,299
Turnout
78.7%
Valid votes
5,79,179
Margin
68,755
11.87%
Candidates
8 contested · winner CPM- 1MASUDAL HASSAIN SYEDCommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM2,91,32550.3%
- 2ABDUS SATTARINCI · INCI2,22,57038.4%
- 3ABU RAIHAN BISWASSUC · SUC27,5444.8%
- 4GOPAL GOSHIndependent · IND10,8641.9%
- 5A.K.M. HASSAN UZZAMANMUL · MUL10,6091.8%
- 6SYED KAZIM ALI MERZAJanata Party · JNP8,7791.5%
- 7BARIN RAYIndependent · IND3,9200.7%
- 8PRINCE SCIENTIST BOSEIndependent · IND3,5680.6%
Since 1977
Derived- Winner then
- BLD
- Winner now
- CPMflipped
- CPM–INCI swing
- +11.9%
- CPM share
- 0.0% → 50.3%
- INCI share
- 0.0% → 38.4%
- Turnout
- 60.0% → 78.7%