Constituency
50. Farakka
Community mirrorWest Bengal Assembly Election, 1982
WB-FARAKKA
CPM 44.5%won by 19.9%IND 24.6%
What changed here
DerivedCommunist Party of India (Marxist) held the seat; the winning margin widened from 8.9% to 19.9%.
- Multi-cornered4 candidates cleared 5% — a genuinely multi-cornered fight.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
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Turnout
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Valid votes
66,775
Margin
13,268
19.87%
Candidates
4 contested · winner CPM- 1ABUL HASNAT KHANCommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM29,70244.5%
- 2JERAT ALIIndependent · IND16,43424.6%
- 3MD. ISRAILIndependent · IND10,35215.5%
- 4SASTI CHARAN GHOSHBharatiya Janata Party · BJP10,28715.4%
Since 1977
Derived- Winner then
- CPM
- Winner now
- CPM
- CPM–IND swing
- +11.0%
- CPM share
- 36.8% → 44.5%
- IND share
- 27.9% → 24.6%
- Turnout
- — → —