Constituency
502. Tamluk
Community mirrorWest Bengal · India Lok Sabha Election, 1984
IN-TAMLUK
CPM 49.9%won by 1.9%INC 48.1%
What changed here
DerivedCommunist Party of India (Marxist) held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 22.8% to 1.9%.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 7.0% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
- New challengerIndian National Congress (INC) finished second with 48.1% — it did not contest here in 1980.
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 98.0% of the vote between them, up from 91.2% — a tighter two-way contest.
- TurnoutTurnout rose 3.6% to 82.0%.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
7,66,616
Turnout
82.0%
Valid votes
6,28,754
Margin
11,692
1.86%
Candidates
6 contested · winner CPM- 1MISHRA SATYAGOPALCommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM3,13,95549.9%
- 2SARADINDU SAMANTAIndian National Congress · INC3,02,26348.1%
- 3ASUTOSH SAMANTASUC · SUC9,2781.5%
- 4SRIDHAR CHANDRA DOLUIIndependent · IND1,8310.3%
- 5SITANGSU SEKHAR DASIndependent · IND1,0040.2%
- 6SWAPAN MAITYIndependent · IND4230.1%
Since 1980
Derived- Winner then
- CPM
- Winner now
- CPM
- CPM–INC swing
- −55.1%
- CPM share
- 57.0% → 49.9%
- INC share
- 0.0% → 48.1%
- Turnout
- 78.4% → 82.0%