Constituency
490. Jadavpur
Community mirrorWest Bengal · India Lok Sabha Election, 1984
IN-JADAVPUR
INC 50.9%won by 3.0%CPM 47.9%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Communist Party of India (Marxist) (CPM) lost it to Indian National Congress (INC), which now leads by 3.0%.
- INC vote shareINC went from 0.0% to 50.9% of the vote here (+50.9%).
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 98.7% of the vote between them, up from 91.6% — a tighter two-way contest.
- TurnoutTurnout rose 10.1% to 74.8%.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
8,71,732
Turnout
74.8%
Valid votes
6,51,905
Margin
19,660
3.02%
Candidates
4 contested · winner INC- 1MAMATA BANERJEEIndian National Congress · INC3,31,61850.9%
- 2SOMNATH CHATTERJEECommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM3,11,95847.9%
- 3SAKTI SARKARICS · ICS5,9930.9%
- 4RAJANATH PRASADIndependent · IND2,3360.4%
Since 1980
Derived- Winner then
- CPM
- Winner now
- INCflipped
- INC–CPM swing
- +63.0%
- INC share
- 0.0% → 50.9%
- CPM share
- 60.0% → 47.9%
- Turnout
- 64.7% → 74.8%