Constituency
525. Asansol
Community mirrorWest Bengal · India Lok Sabha Election, 1980
IN-ASANSOL
INCI 42.9%won by 2.4%CPM 40.6%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Communist Party of India (Marxist) (CPM) lost it to INCI (INCI), which now leads by 2.4%.
- INCI vote shareINCI went from 0.0% to 42.9% of the vote here (+42.9%).
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 83.5% between them, down from 92.0% — the field split more ways.
- TurnoutTurnout rose 10.9% to 53.6%.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
7,63,340
Turnout
53.6%
Valid votes
4,09,476
Margin
9,652
2.36%
Candidates
10 contested · winner INCI- 1ANANDA GOPAL MUKHOPADHYAINCI · INCI1,75,70342.9%
- 2ROBIN SENCommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM1,66,05140.6%
- 3MITRA GOPIKARANJAN (DR. G.R. MITRA)Janata Party · JNP27,2226.6%
- 4PRADIP KUMAR BHATTACHARYYAINCU · INCU9,4152.3%
- 5BADAL BOURIIndependent · IND8,4602.1%
- 6JOY SHANKAR CHOWDHURYIndependent · IND6,1901.5%
- 7DOMAN PRASAD BHUIYANRPI · RPI5,7491.4%
- 8GHANTY MANIKIndependent · IND5,0701.2%
- 9MAHADEB MUKHERJEEIndependent · IND3,4560.8%
- 10MOHAMMAD MOSLEN KHANIndependent · IND2,1600.5%
Since 1977
Derived- Winner then
- CPM
- Winner now
- INCIflipped
- INCI–CPM swing
- +61.4%
- INCI share
- 0.0% → 42.9%
- CPM share
- 59.1% → 40.6%
- Turnout
- 42.8% → 53.6%