Constituency
491. Barrackpore
Community mirrorWest Bengal · India Lok Sabha Election, 1984
IN-BARRACKPORE
INC 53.5%won by 8.9%CPM 44.6%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Communist Party of India (Marxist) (CPM) lost it to Indian National Congress (INC), which now leads by 8.9%.
- INC vote shareINC went from 0.0% to 53.5% of the vote here (+53.5%).
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 98.2% of the vote between them, up from 91.3% — a tighter two-way contest.
- TurnoutTurnout rose 10.5% to 77.7%.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
7,78,226
Turnout
77.7%
Valid votes
6,04,376
Margin
53,669
8.88%
Candidates
5 contested · winner INC- 1DEBI GHOSALIndian National Congress · INC3,23,48353.5%
- 2MOHAMMED AMINCommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM2,69,81444.6%
- 3NARESH SARKARIndependent · IND5,7521.0%
- 4KALYANBROTA ROYBharatiya Janata Party · BJP3,4380.6%
- 5BIJAY NARAYAN MISHRAIndependent · IND1,8890.3%
Since 1980
Derived- Winner then
- CPM
- Winner now
- INCflipped
- INC–CPM swing
- +65.6%
- INC share
- 0.0% → 53.5%
- CPM share
- 56.7% → 44.6%
- Turnout
- 67.2% → 77.7%