Constituency
386. Tripura West
Community mirrorTripura · India Lok Sabha Election, 1984
IN-TRIPURA-WEST
CPM 48.7%won by 0.7%INC 47.9%
What changed here
DerivedCommunist Party of India (Marxist) held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 13.1% to 0.7%.
- New challengerIndian National Congress (INC) finished second with 47.9% — it did not contest here in 1980.
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 96.6% of the vote between them, up from 80.6% — a tighter two-way contest.
- TurnoutTurnout fell 2.4% to 76.7%.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
6,22,082
Turnout
76.7%
Valid votes
4,77,259
Margin
3,520
0.74%
Candidates
6 contested · winner CPM- 1AJOY BISWASCommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM2,32,33948.7%
- 2SUDHIR RANJAN MAJUMDERIndian National Congress · INC2,28,81947.9%
- 3MAHARAJ KUMAR NAKSHATRABharatiya Janata Party · BJP7,0701.5%
- 4BHUBAN BIJOY MAJUMDERIndependent · IND4,0140.8%
- 5SURAJIT GHOSHIndependent · IND2,9790.6%
- 6ANUKUL CHANDRA SAHAIndependent · IND2,0380.4%
Since 1980
Derived- Winner then
- CPM
- Winner now
- CPM
- CPM–INC swing
- −46.1%
- CPM share
- 46.8% → 48.7%
- INC share
- 0.0% → 47.9%
- Turnout
- 79.1% → 76.7%