Constituency
507. Dum Dum
Community mirrorWest Bengal · India Lok Sabha Election, 1980
IN-DUM-DUM
CPM 61.1%won by 27.5%INCI 33.6%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: BLD (BLD) lost it to Communist Party of India (Marxist) (CPM), which now leads by 27.5%.
- CPM vote shareCPM went from 0.0% to 61.1% of the vote here (+61.1%).
- New challengerINCI (INCI) finished second with 33.6% — it did not contest here in 1977.
- TurnoutTurnout rose 6.4% to 66.8%.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
9,02,611
Turnout
66.8%
Valid votes
6,02,917
Margin
1,65,672
27.48%
Candidates
9 contested · winner CPM- 1NIREN GHOSHCommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM3,68,21461.1%
- 2BARID BARAN DASINCI · INCI2,02,54233.6%
- 3KALYAN BRATA ROYJanata Party · JNP19,4003.2%
- 4SALIL BISWASINCU · INCU4,6920.8%
- 5RAMPRIT GONDRPI · RPI3,0810.5%
- 6ANIRUDDHA BERAIndependent · IND1,8900.3%
- 7SAHABIR PRASAD SHAWIndependent · IND1,4040.2%
- 8SWAPAN DUTTAIndependent · IND9270.2%
- 9KARUNA NIDHAN ROYIndependent · IND7670.1%
Since 1977
Derived- Winner then
- BLD
- Winner now
- CPMflipped
- CPM–INCI swing
- +27.5%
- CPM share
- 0.0% → 61.1%
- INCI share
- 0.0% → 33.6%
- Turnout
- 60.4% → 66.8%