Constituency
510. Calcutta South
Community mirrorWest Bengal · India Lok Sabha Election, 1980
IN-CALCUTTA-SOUTH
CPM 46.1%won by 8.0%INCI 38.1%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: BLD (BLD) lost it to Communist Party of India (Marxist) (CPM), which now leads by 8.0%.
- CPM vote shareCPM went from 0.0% to 46.1% of the vote here (+46.1%).
- New challengerINCI (INCI) finished second with 38.1% — it did not contest here in 1977.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 84.2% between them, down from 98.7% — the field split more ways.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
7,68,155
Turnout
60.3%
Valid votes
4,63,145
Margin
37,009
7.99%
Candidates
11 contested · winner CPM- 1SATYA SADHAN CHAKRABARTYCommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM2,13,44146.1%
- 2BHOLANATH SENINCI · INCI1,76,43238.1%
- 3DILIP CHAKRABARTYJanata Party · JNP32,7477.1%
- 4PRIYA RANJAN DAS MUNSHIINCU · INCU28,5316.2%
- 5SUBIR BASU ROYSUC · SUC5,0011.1%
- 6ANIL KUMAR BANERJEEIndependent · IND2,1020.5%
- 7SUBRATA CHATTERJEEIndependent · IND1,4620.3%
- 8SUNIL PRASAD ROYIndependent · IND1,4250.3%
- 9SHAKYA SENIndependent · IND1,0530.2%
- 10KARUNA NIDHAN ROYIndependent · IND4950.1%
- 11RABI CHOWDHURYIndependent · IND4560.1%
Since 1977
Derived- Winner then
- BLD
- Winner now
- CPMflipped
- CPM–INCI swing
- +8.0%
- CPM share
- 0.0% → 46.1%
- INCI share
- 0.0% → 38.1%
- Turnout
- 59.4% → 60.3%