Constituency
500. Barasat
Community mirrorWest Bengal · India Lok Sabha Election, 1980
IN-BARASAT
FBL 53.0%won by 16.7%INCI 36.3%
What changed here
DerivedFBL held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 31.9% to 16.7%.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 3.1% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
- New challengerINCI (INCI) finished second with 36.3% — it did not contest here in 1977.
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 89.3% of the vote between them, up from 80.4% — a tighter two-way contest.
- TurnoutTurnout rose 14.5% to 74.0%.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
7,59,050
Turnout
74.0%
Valid votes
5,61,514
Margin
93,920
16.73%
Candidates
9 contested · winner FBL- 1CHITTA BASUFBL · FBL2,97,75853.0%
- 2HARASIT GHOSHINCI · INCI2,03,83836.3%
- 3ASHOKE KRISHNA DUTTAJanata Party · JNP35,2266.3%
- 4SAUGTA ROYINCU · INCU14,6282.6%
- 5NAREDRA KUMAR MALLICKIndependent · IND3,5720.6%
- 6UPENDRA NATH HALDERIndependent · IND3,2760.6%
- 7SWAPAN KUMAR CHAKRABORTYIndependent · IND1,2880.2%
- 8NURJAHAN BEGUMIndependent · IND9820.2%
- 9ANANGA MOHAN ASHIndependent · IND9460.2%
Since 1977
Derived- Winner then
- FBL
- Winner now
- FBL
- FBL–INCI swing
- −39.4%
- FBL share
- 56.2% → 53.0%
- INCI share
- 0.0% → 36.3%
- Turnout
- 59.5% → 74.0%