Constituency
506. Barrackpore
Community mirrorWest Bengal · India Lok Sabha Election, 1980
IN-BARRACKPORE
CPM 56.7%won by 22.1%INCI 34.6%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Indian National Congress (INC) lost it to Communist Party of India (Marxist) (CPM), which now leads by 22.1%.
- CPM vote shareCPM went from 33.8% to 56.7% of the vote here (+22.9%).
- New challengerINCI (INCI) finished second with 34.6% — it did not contest here in 1977.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 91.3% between them, down from 98.4% — the field split more ways.
- TurnoutTurnout fell 3.1% to 67.2%.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
6,99,806
Turnout
67.2%
Valid votes
4,70,239
Margin
1,03,925
22.10%
Candidates
5 contested · winner CPM- 1MAHAMMED ISMAILCommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM2,66,69856.7%
- 2DEVI GHOSALINCI · INCI1,62,77334.6%
- 3RAMJIT RAMJanata Party · JNP25,7345.5%
- 4RABI SANKAR PANDEYJNPS · JNPS12,2712.6%
- 5BIJOY NARAYAN MISRAIndependent · IND2,7630.6%
Since 1977
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- CPMflipped
- CPM–INCI swing
- −11.7%
- CPM share
- 33.8% → 56.7%
- INCI share
- 0.0% → 34.6%
- Turnout
- 70.3% → 67.2%