Constituency
505. Jadavpur
Community mirrorWest Bengal · India Lok Sabha Election, 1980
IN-JADAVPUR
CPM 60.0%won by 28.4%INCI 31.6%
What changed here
DerivedCommunist Party of India (Marxist) held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 39.9% to 28.4%.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 8.0% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
- New challengerINCI (INCI) finished second with 31.6% — it did not contest here in 1977.
- TurnoutTurnout rose 9.1% to 64.7%.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
7,96,010
Turnout
64.7%
Valid votes
5,15,243
Margin
1,46,115
28.36%
Candidates
7 contested · winner CPM- 1SOMNATH CHATTERJEECommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM3,09,09460.0%
- 2SACHINATH MITRAINCI · INCI1,62,97931.6%
- 3HARIPADA BHARATIJanata Party · JNP31,8466.2%
- 4ABDUL MANNAN KHANJNPS · JNPS6,7631.3%
- 5NADYANANDA SINHAIndependent · IND1,7780.3%
- 6GANESH CHANDRA MUKHERJEEIndependent · IND1,4920.3%
- 7KARUNA NIDHAN ROYIndependent · IND1,2910.3%
Since 1977
Derived- Winner then
- CPM
- Winner now
- CPM
- CPM–INCI swing
- −39.6%
- CPM share
- 68.0% → 60.0%
- INCI share
- 0.0% → 31.6%
- Turnout
- 55.6% → 64.7%