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West Bengal Lok Sabha 1980

Results board · 42 constituencies

HouseLok Sabha
StateWest Bengal
Seats
42
Constituencies
Majority
22
Seats needed of 42
Electors
2.98Cr
On the roll
Votes polled
2.10Cr
70.6% of electors
Median turnout
72.5%
Median of 42 seats
CPI(M) lead
+6
Above majority · 28 − 22

[01]Seat matrix

42 seats · one dot per seat · ordered by seats won
Hemicycle of 42 seats: CPI(M) 28, RSP 4, INC 4, CPI 3, AIFB 3. Majority line at 22 seats. Hemicycle of 42 seats: CPI(M) 28, RSP 4, INC 4, CPI 3, AIFB 3. Majority line at 22 seats.
Majority · 22 of 42CPI(M) 28 · +6 above majority
CPI(M) 2866.7% Communist Party of India (Marxist)
RSP 49.5% Revolutionary Socialist Party
INC 49.5% Indian National Congress
CPI 37.1% Communist Party of India
AIFB 37.1% All India Forward Bloc

[02]Vote share

State level, as published
CPI(M) 39.9%28 seats · 66.7%
INC 36.5%4 seats · 9.5%
RSP 5.2%4 seats · 9.5%
AIFB 4.6%3 seats · 7.1%
JNP 4.5%0 seats
Others 9.3%3 seats · 7.1%

Vote share not published

  • CPI3 seats

The published shares sum to 100.0%, so these parties' votes sit inside Others.

Alliances

Not in the source for this election.

[03]Computed insights

Arithmetic · working shown

  1. CPI(M) converted 39.9% of votes into 66.7% of seats, a seat premium of 26.8 pp.

    28 ÷ 42 = 66.7% · 66.7 − 39.9 = +26.8

  2. INC polled 36.5% of votes, the 2nd-highest share, but won 4 seats (9.5%).

    4 ÷ 42 = 9.5% · 9.5 − 36.5 = −27.0

  3. Raiganj was decided by 1,305 votes, the closest of 42 seats; Dum Dum had the widest margin, 1,65,672.

    min / max of margin over 42 seats with a recorded margin

  4. 1 seat was won by a margin under 1%; INC won 1 of them.

    count(margin % < 1.0) = 1 of 42 · INC 1

  5. In SC-reserved seats CPI(M) won 5 of 10 (50.0%), against 66.7% of all seats.

    5 ÷ 10 = 50.0% · 28 ÷ 42 = 66.7%

  6. Turnout ran from 51.9% in Calcutta North West to 84.0% in Panskura; the median seat polled 72.5%.

    min / median / max over 42 seats with a recorded turnout

Each line is arithmetic over the figures on this page.

[04]Turnout

42 of 42 seats carry a turnout
025507510072.5%MEDIAN SEAT
< 50% 00.0% of seats
50–60 49.5% of seats
60–70 1433.3% of seats
70–80 2150.0% of seats
≥ 80% 37.1% of seats
  • LowestCalcutta North West51.9%
  • HighestPanskura84.0%
  • NOTANOTA did not exist before 2013Not recorded

[05]Every seat

42 rows · by constituency number
Constituency results, West Bengal Lok Sabha 1980, all 42 seats
# Constituency Winner Party Votes polled Margin Margin % Turnout %
01 Cooch BeharSC Amar Roy Pradhan All India Forward Bloc 5,24,578 1,18,146 22.5 74.1
02 AlipurduarsST Pius Tirkey Revolutionary Socialist Party 4,24,426 1,15,457 27.2 64.2
03 JalpaiguriSC Subodh Sen Communist Party of India (Marxist) 4,46,909 90,396 20.2 68.1
04 Darjeeling Ananda Pathak Communist Party of India (Marxist) 4,19,397 18,161 4.3 56.7
05 RaiganjCLOSEST Golam Yazdani Indian National Congress 4,82,483 1,305 0.3 69.6
06 Balurghat Barman Palas Revolutionary Socialist Party 5,21,156 80,328 15.4 75.6
07 Malda Abdul Barkat Ataul Ghani Khan Chawdhury Indian National Congress 5,03,253 12,759 2.5 75.5
08 Jangipur Zainal Abedin Communist Party of India (Marxist) 5,02,469 72,826 14.5 72.1
09 Murshidabad Masudal Hassain Syed Communist Party of India (Marxist) 5,91,337 68,755 11.6 80.3
10 Berhampore Tridib Chaudhari Revolutionary Socialist Party 5,45,770 92,269 16.9 70.1
11 Krishnagar Renupada Das Communist Party of India (Marxist) 5,15,993 66,191 12.8 79.7
12 Nabadwip Bidha Gohse (Goswami) Communist Party of India (Marxist) 5,62,492 83,465 14.8 78.3
13 BarasatSC Chitta Basu All India Forward Bloc 5,71,761 93,920 16.4 75.3
14 BasirhatSC Indrajit Gupta Communist Party of India 5,50,004 95,854 17.4 78.9
15 Joynagar Sanat Kumar Mandal Revolutionary Socialist Party 5,28,333 48,529 9.2 76.0
16 Mathurapur Mukundaram Mandal Communist Party of India (Marxist) 5,18,577 77,842 15.0 76.9
17 Diamond Harbour Jyotirmoy Basu Communist Party of India (Marxist) 4,96,366 1,45,932 29.4 70.9
18 Jadavpur Somnath Chatterjee Communist Party of India (Marxist) 5,27,037 1,46,115 27.7 66.2
19 BarrackporeSC Mahammed Ismail Communist Party of India (Marxist) 4,82,460 1,03,925 21.5 68.9
20 Dum DumSCWIDEST Niren Ghosh Communist Party of India (Marxist) 6,16,483 1,65,672 26.9 68.3
21 Calcutta North West Ashoke Kumar Sen Indian National Congress 3,19,813 43,833 13.7 51.9
22 Calcutta North East Sunil Moitra Communist Party of India (Marxist) 4,00,397 27,069 6.8 55.0
23 Calcutta South Satya Sadhan Chakrabarty Communist Party of India (Marxist) 4,72,722 37,009 7.8 61.5
24 Howrah Samar Mukherjee Communist Party of India (Marxist) 5,08,728 58,309 11.5 65.5
25 Uluberia Hannan Mollah Communist Party of India (Marxist) 5,10,579 1,39,078 27.2 69.1
26 Serampore Dinen Bhattacharya Communist Party of India (Marxist) 5,01,575 1,06,107 21.2 64.8
27 Hooghly Rup Chand Pal Communist Party of India (Marxist) 5,10,096 78,393 15.4 72.8
28 Arambagh Bijoy Krishna Modak Communist Party of India (Marxist) 5,44,644 42,991 7.9 80.3
29 PanskuraSC Gita Mukherjee Communist Party of India 5,18,637 98,230 18.9 84.0
30 Tamluk Misra Satyagopal Communist Party of India (Marxist) 5,48,787 1,23,051 22.4 79.6
31 Contai Giri Sudhir Kumar Communist Party of India (Marxist) 4,77,134 89,774 18.8 74.1
32 Midnapore Narayan Choubey Communist Party of India 4,90,282 1,24,351 25.4 73.4
33 JhargramST Hasada Matilal Communist Party of India (Marxist) 5,05,746 98,169 19.4 76.2
34 Purulia Chitta Ranjan Mahata All India Forward Bloc 4,26,779 1,04,892 24.6 61.2
35 Bankura Acharia Basudeb Communist Party of India (Marxist) 4,59,862 43,911 9.5 63.8
36 Vishnupur Ajit Kumar Saha Communist Party of India (Marxist) 5,27,721 1,10,200 20.9 76.2
37 DurgapurSC Krishna Chandra Halder Communist Party of India (Marxist) 5,13,170 95,187 18.5 69.4
38 AsansolSC Ananda Gopal Mukhopadhya Indian National Congress 4,23,787 9,652 2.3 55.5
39 Burdwan Sushil Kumar Bhattacharya Communist Party of India (Marxist) 5,58,707 1,19,727 21.4 74.0
40 Katwa Saifuddin Chwdhury Communist Party of India (Marxist) 5,49,368 1,21,160 22.1 77.0
41 BolpurSC Saradish Roy Communist Party of India (Marxist) 4,93,812 68,629 13.9 74.0
42 Birbhum Gadadhar Saha Communist Party of India (Marxist) 4,41,811 40,663 9.2 67.2
Margin bar scaled to the widest margin, 1,65,672 votes

Seat resultsElection Commission of India, constituency-wise results · Lok Sabha 1980 · West Bengal · 42 seats · retrieval date not recorded in the results database

Vote share and alliancesState-level summary published with the same results · retrieval date not recorded in the results database

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