Constituency
509. Calcutta North East
Community mirrorWest Bengal · India Lok Sabha Election, 1980
IN-CALCUTTA-NORTH-EAST
CPM 48.0%won by 6.9%INCI 41.0%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: BLD (BLD) lost it to Communist Party of India (Marxist) (CPM), which now leads by 6.9%.
- CPM vote shareCPM went from 0.0% to 48.0% of the vote here (+48.0%).
- New challengerINCI (INCI) finished second with 41.0% — it did not contest here in 1977.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 89.0% between them, down from 98.2% — the field split more ways.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
7,27,431
Turnout
53.9%
Valid votes
3,91,964
Margin
27,069
6.91%
Candidates
11 contested · winner CPM- 1SUNIL MOITRACommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM1,87,95148.0%
- 2AJIT KUMAR PANJAINCI · INCI1,60,88241.0%
- 3PROTAP CHANRA CHUNDERJanata Party · JNP32,8318.4%
- 4SUDIP BANDYOPADHYAINCU · INCU5,1421.3%
- 5MUBARAK MAZDOORIndependent · IND8790.2%
- 6RITEDRA NATH GHOSHIndependent · IND8560.2%
- 7MD. NASIM ALI AZADIndependent · IND8170.2%
- 8SK. NOYIMUDDINIndependent · IND7450.2%
- 9RAMASWAR AGARWALAIndependent · IND7280.2%
- 10PANCHANAN MONDALIndependent · IND6150.2%
- 11KARUNA NIDHAN ROYIndependent · IND5180.1%
Since 1977
Derived- Winner then
- BLD
- Winner now
- CPMflipped
- CPM–INCI swing
- +6.9%
- CPM share
- 0.0% → 48.0%
- INCI share
- 0.0% → 41.0%
- Turnout
- 54.9% → 53.9%