Constituency
497. Berhampore
Community mirrorWest Bengal · India Lok Sabha Election, 1980
IN-BERHAMPORE
RSP 57.4%won by 17.2%INCI 40.2%
What changed here
DerivedRashtriya Sarvajan Party held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 26.8% to 17.2%.
- New challengerINCI (INCI) finished second with 40.2% — it did not contest here in 1977.
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 97.6% of the vote between them, up from 80.8% — a tighter two-way contest.
- TurnoutTurnout rose 9.7% to 68.7%.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
7,78,897
Turnout
68.7%
Valid votes
5,35,119
Margin
92,269
17.24%
Candidates
3 contested · winner RSP- 1TRIDIB CHAUDHARIRashtriya Sarvajan Party · RSP3,07,32857.4%
- 2JAGADISH SINHAINCI · INCI2,15,05940.2%
- 3AZIZUR RAHMANINCU · INCU12,7322.4%
Since 1977
Derived- Winner then
- RSP
- Winner now
- RSP
- RSP–INCI swing
- −36.6%
- RSP share
- 53.8% → 57.4%
- INCI share
- 0.0% → 40.2%
- Turnout
- 59.0% → 68.7%