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West Bengal Lok Sabha 1984

Results board · 42 constituencies

HouseLok Sabha

StateWest Bengal

Seats

Constituencies

Majority

Seats needed of 42

Electors

3.30Cr

On the roll

Votes polled

2.59Cr

78.6% of electors

Median turnout

79.1%

Median of 42 seats

CPI(M) short

−4

Below majority · 18 − 22

[01]Seat matrix

42 seats · one dot per seat · ordered by seats won

Majority · 22 of 42CPI(M) 18 · 4 short of majority

CPI(M) 1842.9% Communist Party of India (Marxist)

INC 1638.1% Indian National Congress

CPI 37.1% Communist Party of India

RSP 37.1% Revolutionary Socialist Party

AIFB 24.8% All India Forward Bloc

State level, as published

INC 48.2%16 seats · 38.1%

CPI(M) 35.9%18 seats · 42.9%

RSP 4.6%3 seats · 7.1%

AIFB 4.1%2 seats · 4.8%

CPI 3.8%3 seats · 7.1%

Others 3.4%0 seats · 0.0%

Alliances

Not in the source for this election.

[03]Computed insights

Arithmetic · working shown

CPI(M) converted 35.9% of votes into 42.9% of seats, a seat premium of 7.0 pp.
18 ÷ 42 = 42.9% · 42.9 − 35.9 = +7.0
INC polled 48.2% of votes, the highest share, but won 16 seats (38.1%).
16 ÷ 42 = 38.1% · 38.1 − 48.2 = −10.1
Darjeeling was decided by 1,389 votes, the closest of 42 seats; Calcutta North West had the widest margin, 1,32,422.
min / max of margin over 42 seats with a recorded margin
7 seats were won by a margin under 1%; CPI(M) won 4 of them.
count(margin % < 1.0) = 7 of 42 · CPI(M) 4
In SC-reserved seats CPI(M) won 3 of 10 (30.0%), against 42.9% of all seats.
3 ÷ 10 = 30.0% · 18 ÷ 42 = 42.9%
Turnout ran from 64.7% in Calcutta North West to 85.8% in Arambagh; the median seat polled 79.1%.
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

< 50% 00.0% of seats

50–60 00.0% of seats

60–70 37.1% of seats

70–80 1945.2% of seats

≥ 80% 2047.6% of seats

LowestCalcutta North West64.7%
HighestArambagh85.8%
NOTANOTA did not exist before 2013Not recorded

[05]Every seat

42 rows · by constituency number

Constituency results, West Bengal Lok Sabha 1984, all 42 seats
#	Constituency	Winner	Party	Votes polled	Margin	Margin %	Turnout %
01	Cooch BeharSC	Amar Roy Prodhan	All India Forward Bloc	6,60,863	45,517	6.9	85.1
02	AlipurduarsST	Pijus Tirkey	Revolutionary Socialist Party	5,57,382	30,182	5.4	75.7
03	JalpaiguriSC	Manik Sanyal	Communist Party of India (Marxist)	5,80,864	33,172	5.7	77.7
04	DarjeelingCLOSEST	Ananda Prasad Pathak	Communist Party of India (Marxist)	5,61,738	1,389	0.2	68.1
05	Raiganj	Golam Yazdani	Indian National Congress	5,74,536	20,224	3.5	74.9
06	Balurghat	Palas Barman	Revolutionary Socialist Party	6,26,120	22,217	3.5	81.4
07	Malda	Abu Barkat Ataul Ghani Khan Choudhury	Indian National Congress	5,97,612	46,626	7.8	83.4
08	Jangipur	Abedin Zainal	Communist Party of India (Marxist)	5,98,478	14,738	2.5	77.3
09	Murshidabad	Syed Musudal Hossain	Communist Party of India (Marxist)	6,84,106	6,262	0.9	84.9
10	Berhampore	Atish Chandra Sinha	Indian National Congress	6,63,678	3,047	0.5	76.5
11	Krishnagar	Renu Pada Das	Communist Party of India (Marxist)	6,11,946	4,787	0.8	83.7
12	Nabadwip	Bibha Ghosh (Goswami)	Communist Party of India (Marxist)	6,95,774	6,652	1.0	81.2
13	BarasatSC	Tarun Kanti Ghosh	Indian National Congress	7,03,865	12,612	1.8	83.8
14	BasirhatSC	Indrajit Gupta	Communist Party of India	6,17,980	39,043	6.3	81.9
15	Joynagar	Sant Kumar Mandal	Revolutionary Socialist Party	6,11,190	20,449	3.3	80.1
16	Mathurapur	Manoranjan Halder	Indian National Congress	5,99,672	2,299	0.4	81.7
17	Diamond Harbour	Amal Datta	Communist Party of India (Marxist)	5,98,286	4,673	0.8	75.2
18	Jadavpur	Mamata Banerjee	Indian National Congress	6,66,155	19,660	3.0	76.4
19	BarrackporeSC	Debi Ghosal	Indian National Congress	6,17,101	53,669	8.7	79.3
20	Dum DumSC	Asutosh Law	Indian National Congress	7,78,814	2,703	0.3	77.4
21	Calcutta North WestWIDEST	Ashok Kumar Sen	Indian National Congress	3,87,146	1,32,422	34.2	64.7
22	Calcutta North East	Ajit Kumar Panja	Indian National Congress	5,09,101	88,576	17.4	71.8
23	Calcutta South	Bhola Nath Sen	Indian National Congress	5,82,369	88,939	15.3	72.5
24	Howrah	Priya Ranjan Das Munshi	Indian National Congress	6,89,599	94,042	13.6	76.7
25	Uluberia	Hannan Mollah	Communist Party of India (Marxist)	6,27,530	12,425	2.0	81.0
26	Serampore	Bimal Kanti Ghosh	Indian National Congress	6,71,287	30,231	4.5	76.7
27	Hooghly	Indumati Bhattacharyya	Indian National Congress	6,46,867	10,967	1.7	83.5
28	Arambagh	Anil Basu	Communist Party of India (Marxist)	6,59,108	14,160	2.1	85.8
29	PanskuraSC	Geeta Mukherjee	Communist Party of India	6,07,667	47,876	7.9	85.7
30	Tamluk	Mishra Satyagopal	Communist Party of India (Marxist)	6,37,176	11,692	1.8	83.1
31	Contai	Phulrenu Guha	Indian National Congress	5,64,583	13,758	2.4	81.0
32	Midnapore	Narayan Choubey	Communist Party of India	6,09,529	56,997	9.4	80.1
33	JhargramST	Motilal Hansda	Communist Party of India (Marxist)	5,88,420	75,242	12.8	78.8
34	Purulia	Chittaranjan Mahata	All India Forward Bloc	5,57,653	13,751	2.5	73.9
35	Bankura	Acharia Basudeb	Communist Party of India (Marxist)	5,67,298	24,216	4.3	73.6
36	Vishnupur	Ajit Kumar Saha	Communist Party of India (Marxist)	6,13,196	75,640	12.3	80.5
37	DurgapurSC	Purna Chandra Malik	Communist Party of India (Marxist)	6,45,271	38,768	6.0	77.9
38	AsansolSC	Anada Gopal Mukherjee	Indian National Congress	6,25,065	86,666	13.9	69.9
39	Burdwan	Sudhir Ray	Communist Party of India (Marxist)	6,97,707	57,684	8.3	83.0
40	Katwa	Saifuddin Chowdhury	Communist Party of India (Marxist)	6,62,481	43,450	6.6	82.8
41	BolpurSC	Saradish Roy	Communist Party of India (Marxist)	5,89,186	60,931	10.3	78.3
42	Birbhum	Gadahar Saha	Communist Party of India (Marxist)	5,63,391	13,481	2.4	75.0

Margin bar scaled to the widest margin, 1,32,422 votes

Seat resultsElection Commission of India, constituency-wise results · Lok Sabha 1984 · West Bengal · 42 seats · retrieval date not recorded in the results database