Constituency
387. Tripura East
Community mirrorTripura · India Lok Sabha Election, 1984
IN-TRIPURA-EAST
CPM 52.4%won by 9.3%INC 43.1%
What changed here
DerivedCommunist Party of India (Marxist) held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 23.1% to 9.3%.
- New challengerIndian National Congress (INC) finished second with 43.1% — it did not contest here in 1980.
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 95.5% of the vote between them, up from 73.3% — a tighter two-way contest.
- TurnoutTurnout fell 2.8% to 75.1%.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
5,86,885
Turnout
75.1%
Valid votes
4,40,901
Margin
41,063
9.31%
Candidates
4 contested · winner CPM- 1BAJU BAN RIYANCommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM2,31,02352.4%
- 2KIRIT BIKRAM KISHORE DEBBARMANIndian National Congress · INC1,89,96043.1%
- 3SNEHA KUMAR CHAKMAIndependent · IND14,6713.3%
- 4NIRANJAN DEB BARMAIndependent · IND5,2471.2%
Since 1980
Derived- Winner then
- CPM
- Winner now
- CPM
- CPM–INC swing
- −38.9%
- CPM share
- 48.2% → 52.4%
- INC share
- 0.0% → 43.1%
- Turnout
- 78.0% → 75.1%