Constituency
518. Contai
Community mirrorWest Bengal · India Lok Sabha Election, 1980
IN-CONTAI
CPM 50.3%won by 19.0%INCI 31.2%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: BLD (BLD) lost it to Communist Party of India (Marxist) (CPM), which now leads by 19.0%.
- CPM vote shareCPM went from 0.0% to 50.3% of the vote here (+50.3%).
- New challengerINCI (INCI) finished second with 31.2% — it did not contest here in 1977.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 81.5% between them, down from 98.5% — the field split more ways.
- TurnoutTurnout rose 7.8% to 73.2%.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
6,44,267
Turnout
73.2%
Valid votes
4,71,378
Margin
89,774
19.05%
Candidates
6 contested · winner CPM- 1GIRI SUDHIR KUMARCommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM2,37,00250.3%
- 2PRADIP SARKARINCI · INCI1,47,22831.2%
- 3SAMAR GUHAJanata Party · JNP80,11117.0%
- 4PRASANTA KUMAR GAUNIAIndependent · IND3,1550.7%
- 5ATAL KUMAR GIRIJNPS · JNPS2,7210.6%
- 6SASADHAR MAITYIndependent · IND1,1610.2%
Since 1977
Derived- Winner then
- BLD
- Winner now
- CPMflipped
- CPM–INCI swing
- +19.0%
- CPM share
- 0.0% → 50.3%
- INCI share
- 0.0% → 31.2%
- Turnout
- 65.3% → 73.2%