Constituency
495. Calcutta South
Community mirrorWest Bengal · India Lok Sabha Election, 1984
IN-CALCUTTA-SOUTH
INC 56.9%won by 15.6%CPM 41.3%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Communist Party of India (Marxist) (CPM) lost it to Indian National Congress (INC), which now leads by 15.6%.
- INC vote shareINC went from 0.0% to 56.9% of the vote here (+56.9%).
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 98.3% of the vote between them, up from 84.2% — a tighter two-way contest.
- TurnoutTurnout rose 10.8% to 71.0%.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
8,03,022
Turnout
71.0%
Valid votes
5,70,566
Margin
88,939
15.59%
Candidates
9 contested · winner INC- 1BHOLA NATH SENIndian National Congress · INC3,24,82356.9%
- 2SATYASADHAN CHAKRABORTYCommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM2,35,88441.3%
- 3MRIDULA MUKHERJEEIndependent · IND2,5440.4%
- 4SK. SULTANIndependent · IND2,5430.4%
- 5DINESH GUPTAIndependent · IND1,2740.2%
- 6M. K. RATNAMIndependent · IND1,0970.2%
- 7CHANDAN BANICKIndependent · IND8720.2%
- 8SHYAM SUNDER THAKURIndependent · IND7890.1%
- 9SOUREN MITRAIndependent · IND7400.1%
Since 1980
Derived- Winner then
- CPM
- Winner now
- INCflipped
- INC–CPM swing
- +61.7%
- INC share
- 0.0% → 56.9%
- CPM share
- 46.1% → 41.3%
- Turnout
- 60.3% → 71.0%