Constituency
526. Burdwan
Community mirrorWest Bengal · India Lok Sabha Election, 1980
IN-BURDWAN
CPM 59.0%won by 22.0%INCI 37.0%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: BLD (BLD) lost it to Communist Party of India (Marxist) (CPM), which now leads by 22.0%.
- CPM vote shareCPM went from 0.0% to 59.0% of the vote here (+59.0%).
- New challengerINCI (INCI) finished second with 37.0% — it did not contest here in 1977.
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 96.0% of the vote between them, up from 87.4% — a tighter two-way contest.
- TurnoutTurnout rose 16.6% to 72.1%.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
7,54,743
Turnout
72.1%
Valid votes
5,44,283
Margin
1,19,727
22.00%
Candidates
6 contested · winner CPM- 1SUSHIL KUMAR BHATTACHARYACommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM3,20,99059.0%
- 2CHOWDHURY NARAYANINCI · INCI2,01,26337.0%
- 3SATYARARAYAN ROYJanata Party · JNP10,3861.9%
- 4SAHADEV DUTTAIndependent · IND5,1741.0%
- 5HARI BALLAV JHAJNPS · JNPS4,0310.7%
- 6RANUKA MITRAIndependent · IND2,4390.4%
Since 1977
Derived- Winner then
- BLD
- Winner now
- CPMflipped
- CPM–INCI swing
- +22.0%
- CPM share
- 0.0% → 59.0%
- INCI share
- 0.0% → 37.0%
- Turnout
- 55.5% → 72.1%