Constituency
501. Basirhat
Community mirrorWest Bengal · India Lok Sabha Election, 1980
IN-BASIRHAT
CPI 57.6%won by 17.8%INCI 39.9%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: BLD (BLD) lost it to Communist Party of India (CPI), which now leads by 17.8%.
- CPI vote shareCPI went from 0.0% to 57.6% of the vote here (+57.6%).
- New challengerINCI (INCI) finished second with 39.9% — it did not contest here in 1977.
- TurnoutTurnout rose 18.9% to 77.5%.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
6,96,796
Turnout
77.5%
Valid votes
5,39,996
Margin
95,854
17.75%
Candidates
6 contested · winner CPI- 1INDRAJIT GUPTACommunist Party of India · CPI3,11,12157.6%
- 2ABDUL GAFFAR QUAZIINCI · INCI2,15,26739.9%
- 3ALHAJ M.A. HANNANJanata Party · JNP8,3651.5%
- 4ALHAJ MD. ADBUS SALAMMUL · MUL3,4490.6%
- 5PARESH NATH KAYALIndependent · IND9000.2%
- 6MIHIR KUMAR HALDARIndependent · IND8940.2%
Since 1977
Derived- Winner then
- BLD
- Winner now
- CPIflipped
- CPI–INCI swing
- +17.8%
- CPI share
- 0.0% → 57.6%
- INCI share
- 0.0% → 39.9%
- Turnout
- 58.6% → 77.5%