Constituency
503. Contai
Community mirrorWest Bengal · India Lok Sabha Election, 1984
IN-CONTAI
INC 50.6%won by 2.5%CPM 48.1%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Communist Party of India (Marxist) (CPM) lost it to Indian National Congress (INC), which now leads by 2.5%.
- INC vote shareINC went from 0.0% to 50.6% of the vote here (+50.6%).
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 98.7% of the vote between them, up from 81.5% — a tighter two-way contest.
- TurnoutTurnout rose 6.8% to 80.0%.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
6,97,117
Turnout
80.0%
Valid votes
5,57,365
Margin
13,758
2.47%
Candidates
5 contested · winner INC- 1PHULRENU GUHAIndian National Congress · INC2,82,06550.6%
- 2SUDHI KUMAR GIRICommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM2,68,30748.1%
- 3PRAMATHES GAUNIAIndependent · IND3,4030.6%
- 4ARABINDA MANNAIndependent · IND2,2010.4%
- 5MANDANLAL PRASARIIndependent · IND1,3890.2%
Since 1980
Derived- Winner then
- CPM
- Winner now
- INCflipped
- INC–CPM swing
- +52.7%
- INC share
- 0.0% → 50.6%
- CPM share
- 50.3% → 48.1%
- Turnout
- 73.2% → 80.0%