Constituency
528. Bolpur
Community mirrorWest Bengal · India Lok Sabha Election, 1980
IN-BOLPUR
CPM 55.0%won by 14.2%INCI 40.7%
What changed here
DerivedCommunist Party of India (Marxist) held the seat; the winning margin held roughly steady from 14.0% to 14.2%.
- New challengerINCI (INCI) finished second with 40.7% — it did not contest here in 1977.
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 95.7% of the vote between them, up from 86.4% — a tighter two-way contest.
- TurnoutTurnout rose 25.5% to 72.2%.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
6,66,936
Turnout
72.2%
Valid votes
4,81,726
Margin
68,629
14.25%
Candidates
8 contested · winner CPM- 1SARADISH ROYCommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM2,64,79855.0%
- 2PRANAB KUMAR MUKHERJEEINCI · INCI1,96,16940.7%
- 3KAITISH CHANDRA CHATTOPADHYAYIndependent · IND8,7181.8%
- 4NARAYAN CHANDRA MANDALIndependent · IND3,8720.8%
- 5MODESWAR HOSSAINJNPS · JNPS2,8090.6%
- 6GOUR HARICHANDRAINCU · INCU2,2360.5%
- 7NIRMAL SAHAIndependent · IND1,7710.4%
- 8DILIP BANERJEEIndependent · IND1,3530.3%
Since 1977
Derived- Winner then
- CPM
- Winner now
- CPM
- CPM–INCI swing
- −35.9%
- CPM share
- 50.2% → 55.0%
- INCI share
- 0.0% → 40.7%
- Turnout
- 46.7% → 72.2%