Constituency
504. Diamond Harbour
Community mirrorWest Bengal · India Lok Sabha Election, 1980
IN-DIAMOND-HARBOUR
CPM 63.8%won by 30.0%INCI 33.8%
What changed here
DerivedCommunist Party of India (Marxist) held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 41.2% to 30.0%.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 6.8% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
- New challengerINCI (INCI) finished second with 33.8% — it did not contest here in 1977.
- TurnoutTurnout rose 7.1% to 69.5%.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
7,00,277
Turnout
69.5%
Valid votes
4,86,677
Margin
1,45,932
29.99%
Candidates
6 contested · winner CPM- 1JYOTIRMOY BASUCommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM3,10,40663.8%
- 2A.K.M. ISHAQUEINCI · INCI1,64,47433.8%
- 3JAMILA KHATOONMUL · MUL7,2141.5%
- 4PARESH PALIndependent · IND2,2590.5%
- 5KARUNA NADHAN ROYIndependent · IND1,4520.3%
- 6SHAIK ABDUL WADUDIndependent · IND8720.2%
Since 1977
Derived- Winner then
- CPM
- Winner now
- CPM
- CPM–INCI swing
- −40.6%
- CPM share
- 70.6% → 63.8%
- INCI share
- 0.0% → 33.8%
- Turnout
- 62.4% → 69.5%