Constituency
504. Midnapore
Community mirrorWest Bengal · India Lok Sabha Election, 1984
IN-MIDNAPORE
CPI 53.1%won by 9.5%INC 43.6%
What changed here
DerivedCommunist Party of India held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 25.9% to 9.5%.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 4.4% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
- New challengerIndian National Congress (INC) finished second with 43.6% — it did not contest here in 1980.
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 96.8% of the vote between them, up from 89.3% — a tighter two-way contest.
- TurnoutTurnout rose 7.0% to 78.7%.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
7,61,479
Turnout
78.7%
Valid votes
5,99,292
Margin
56,997
9.51%
Candidates
12 contested · winner CPI- 1NARAYAN CHOUBEYCommunist Party of India · CPI3,18,51153.1%
- 2AJIT KUMAR KHANRAIndian National Congress · INC2,61,51443.6%
- 3ABDUL RAHIMIndependent · IND5,6770.9%
- 4DILIP MAITISUC · SUC3,9270.7%
- 5BACHNESHWAR SAHAIndependent · IND2,5270.4%
- 6GOUR HARI BHATTACHARYAIndependent · IND1,8680.3%
- 7ASHOKE CHENDRA DEYIndependent · IND1,5500.3%
- 8JITENDRA NATH DEIndependent · IND1,3440.2%
- 9INDRA DEO DASIndependent · IND7620.1%
- 10SUSHIL KUMARIndependent · IND6660.1%
- 11TARAK DAS DUTTAIndependent · IND5220.1%
- 12MIRZA OHIDUR RAHAMAN BEGIndependent · IND4240.1%
Since 1980
Derived- Winner then
- CPI
- Winner now
- CPI
- CPI–INC swing
- −48.1%
- CPI share
- 57.6% → 53.1%
- INC share
- 0.0% → 43.6%
- Turnout
- 71.7% → 78.7%