Constituency
517. Tamluk
Community mirrorWest Bengal · India Lok Sabha Election, 1980
IN-TAMLUK
CPM 57.0%won by 22.8%INCI 34.2%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: BLD (BLD) lost it to Communist Party of India (Marxist) (CPM), which now leads by 22.8%.
- CPM vote shareCPM went from 0.0% to 57.0% of the vote here (+57.0%).
- New challengerINCI (INCI) finished second with 34.2% — it did not contest here in 1977.
- TurnoutTurnout rose 10.1% to 78.4%.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
6,89,405
Turnout
78.4%
Valid votes
5,40,312
Margin
1,23,051
22.77%
Candidates
8 contested · winner CPM- 1MISRA SATYAGOPALCommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM3,07,86457.0%
- 2SHYAM DAS BHATTACHARYYAINCI · INCI1,84,81334.2%
- 3PAASANTA KUMAR GAYENJanata Party · JNP17,0973.2%
- 4SUSHIL KUMAR DHARAJNPS · JNPS15,5092.9%
- 5ASUTOSH SAMANTASUC · SUC9,4351.7%
- 6SRIDHAR CHANDRA DOULIIndependent · IND2,6940.5%
- 7BHAKTIPADA MANDALIndependent · IND1,6370.3%
- 8SITANGSU SEKHAR DASIndependent · IND1,2630.2%
Since 1977
Derived- Winner then
- BLD
- Winner now
- CPMflipped
- CPM–INCI swing
- +22.8%
- CPM share
- 0.0% → 57.0%
- INCI share
- 0.0% → 34.2%
- Turnout
- 68.3% → 78.4%