Constituency
519. Midnapore
Community mirrorWest Bengal · India Lok Sabha Election, 1980
IN-MIDNAPORE
CPI 57.6%won by 25.9%INCI 31.7%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: BLD (BLD) lost it to Communist Party of India (CPI), which now leads by 25.9%.
- CPI vote shareCPI went from 44.8% to 57.6% of the vote here (+12.8%).
- New challengerINCI (INCI) finished second with 31.7% — it did not contest here in 1977.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 89.3% between them, down from 100.0% — the field split more ways.
- TurnoutTurnout rose 15.4% to 71.7%.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
6,68,312
Turnout
71.7%
Valid votes
4,79,477
Margin
1,24,351
25.93%
Candidates
8 contested · winner CPI- 1NARAYAN CHOUBEYCommunist Party of India · CPI2,76,14457.6%
- 2SUDHIR KUMAR GHOSALINCI · INCI1,51,79331.7%
- 3NARENDRA DASJanata Party · JNP28,6186.0%
- 4GYAN SINGH SOHANPALINCU · INCU9,8822.1%
- 5BHUSAN MONDALSUC · SUC4,5060.9%
- 6DULAI CHANDRA MURMUJKD · JKD4,3050.9%
- 7SATYA GHOSHIndependent · IND3,1340.7%
- 8BHIM CHARAN TUDUIndependent · IND1,0950.2%
Since 1977
Derived- Winner then
- BLD
- Winner now
- CPIflipped
- CPI–INCI swing
- −18.8%
- CPI share
- 44.8% → 57.6%
- INCI share
- 0.0% → 31.7%
- Turnout
- 56.3% → 71.7%