Constituency
492. Dum Dum
Community mirrorWest Bengal · India Lok Sabha Election, 1984
IN-DUM-DUM
INC 50.2%won by 0.4%CPM 49.8%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Communist Party of India (Marxist) (CPM) lost it to Indian National Congress (INC), which now leads by 0.4%.
- INC vote shareINC went from 0.0% to 50.2% of the vote here (+50.2%).
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 100.0% of the vote between them, up from 94.7% — a tighter two-way contest.
- TurnoutTurnout rose 8.9% to 75.7%.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
10,05,879
Turnout
75.7%
Valid votes
7,61,265
Margin
2,703
0.36%
Candidates
2 contested · winner INC- 1ASUTOSH LAWIndian National Congress · INC3,81,98450.2%
- 2NIREN GHOSHCommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM3,79,28149.8%
Since 1980
Derived- Winner then
- CPM
- Winner now
- INCflipped
- INC–CPM swing
- +61.4%
- INC share
- 0.0% → 50.2%
- CPM share
- 61.1% → 49.8%
- Turnout
- 66.8% → 75.7%