Constituency
494. Calcutta North East
Community mirrorWest Bengal · India Lok Sabha Election, 1984
IN-CALCUTTA-NORTH-EAST
INC 57.1%won by 17.8%CPM 39.3%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Communist Party of India (Marxist) (CPM) lost it to Indian National Congress (INC), which now leads by 17.8%.
- INC vote shareINC went from 0.0% to 57.1% of the vote here (+57.1%).
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 96.4% of the vote between them, up from 89.0% — a tighter two-way contest.
- TurnoutTurnout rose 16.3% to 70.2%.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
7,09,568
Turnout
70.2%
Valid votes
4,97,876
Margin
88,576
17.79%
Candidates
12 contested · winner INC- 1AJIT KUMAR PANJAIndian National Congress · INC2,84,32457.1%
- 2SUNIL MAITRACommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM1,95,74839.3%
- 3NIRMALENDU DEYJanata Party · JNP5,4881.1%
- 4MD. SAMSUDDINMUL · MUL3,5910.7%
- 5KANAILAL CHOWDHURYIndependent · IND2,0850.4%
- 6AMALENDU ROYIndependent · IND1,6230.3%
- 7RAJESH GUPTAIndependent · IND1,1550.2%
- 8RABINDRANATH DASGUPTAIndependent · IND1,0880.2%
- 9KANAILAL BOSEIndependent · IND7600.2%
- 10NILIMA NANDYIndependent · IND7380.1%
- 11DHIRENDRANATH CHATTERJEEIndependent · IND6900.1%
- 12RABIN MUKHERJEEIndependent · IND5860.1%
Since 1980
Derived- Winner then
- CPM
- Winner now
- INCflipped
- INC–CPM swing
- +65.7%
- INC share
- 0.0% → 57.1%
- CPM share
- 48.0% → 39.3%
- Turnout
- 53.9% → 70.2%