WEST BENGAL · 1980
Seats42
Electors2.98 Cr
Votes polled2.1 Cr
Median turnout72.8%
Other years: 20242019201420092004199919981996199119891984197719711967196219571952
Party standings
Communist Party Of India (MARXIST)
28
of 42 seats · 66.7%
majority
Communist Party Of India (MARXIST)
28
Revolutionary Socialist Party
4
Indian National Congress (I)
4
Communist Party Of India
3
All India Forward Bloc
3
Every seat
| # | Constituency | Winner | Party | Votes | Margin | Margin % | Turnout |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Cooch BeharSC | Amar Roy Pradhan | AIFB | 524,578 | 118,146 | 22.5 | 74.1 |
| 2 | AlipurduarsST | Pius Tirkey | RSP | 424,426 | 115,457 | 27.2 | 64.2 |
| 3 | JalpaiguriSC | Subodh Sen | CPIM | 446,909 | 90,396 | 20.2 | 68.1 |
| 4 | Darjeeling | Ananda Pathak | CPIM | 419,397 | 18,161 | 4.3 | 56.7 |
| 5 | Raiganj | Golam Yazdani | INCI | 482,483 | 1,305 | 0.3 | 69.6 |
| 6 | Balurghat | Barman Palas | RSP | 521,156 | 80,328 | 15.4 | 75.6 |
| 7 | Malda | Abdul Barkat Ataul Ghani Khan Chawdhury | INCI | 503,253 | 12,759 | 2.5 | 75.5 |
| 8 | Jangipur | Zainal Abedin | CPIM | 502,469 | 72,826 | 14.5 | 72.1 |
| 9 | Murshidabad | Masudal Hassain Syed | CPIM | 591,337 | 68,755 | 11.6 | 80.3 |
| 10 | Berhampore | Tridib Chaudhari | RSP | 545,770 | 92,269 | 16.9 | 70.1 |
| 11 | Krishnagar | Renupada Das | CPIM | 515,993 | 66,191 | 12.8 | 79.7 |
| 12 | Nabadwip | Bidha Gohse (Goswami) | CPIM | 562,492 | 83,465 | 14.8 | 78.3 |
| 13 | BarasatSC | Chitta Basu | AIFB | 571,761 | 93,920 | 16.4 | 75.3 |
| 14 | BasirhatSC | Indrajit Gupta | CPI | 550,004 | 95,854 | 17.4 | 78.9 |
| 15 | Joynagar | Sanat Kumar Mandal | RSP | 528,333 | 48,529 | 9.2 | 76.0 |
| 16 | Mathurapur | Mukundaram Mandal | CPIM | 518,577 | 77,842 | 15.0 | 76.9 |
| 17 | Diamond Harbour | Jyotirmoy Basu | CPIM | 496,366 | 145,932 | 29.4 | 70.9 |
| 18 | Jadavpur | Somnath Chatterjee | CPIM | 527,037 | 146,115 | 27.7 | 66.2 |
| 19 | BarrackporeSC | Mahammed Ismail | CPIM | 482,460 | 103,925 | 21.5 | 68.9 |
| 20 | Dum DumSC | Niren Ghosh | CPIM | 616,483 | 165,672 | 26.9 | 68.3 |
| 21 | Calcutta North West | Ashoke Kumar Sen | INCI | 319,813 | 43,833 | 13.7 | 51.9 |
| 22 | Calcutta North East | Sunil Moitra | CPIM | 400,397 | 27,069 | 6.8 | 55.0 |
| 23 | Calcutta South | Satya Sadhan Chakrabarty | CPIM | 472,722 | 37,009 | 7.8 | 61.5 |
| 24 | Howrah | Samar Mukherjee | CPIM | 508,728 | 58,309 | 11.5 | 65.5 |
| 25 | Uluberia | Hannan Mollah | CPIM | 510,579 | 139,078 | 27.2 | 69.1 |
| 26 | Serampore | Dinen Bhattacharya | CPIM | 501,575 | 106,107 | 21.2 | 64.8 |
| 27 | Hooghly | Rup Chand Pal | CPIM | 510,096 | 78,393 | 15.4 | 72.8 |
| 28 | Arambagh | Bijoy Krishna Modak | CPIM | 544,644 | 42,991 | 7.9 | 80.3 |
| 29 | PanskuraSC | Gita Mukherjee | CPI | 518,637 | 98,230 | 18.9 | 84.0 |
| 30 | Tamluk | Misra Satyagopal | CPIM | 548,787 | 123,051 | 22.4 | 79.6 |
| 31 | Contai | Giri Sudhir Kumar | CPIM | 477,134 | 89,774 | 18.8 | 74.1 |
| 32 | Midnapore | Narayan Choubey | CPI | 490,282 | 124,351 | 25.4 | 73.4 |
| 33 | JhargramST | Hasada Matilal | CPIM | 505,746 | 98,169 | 19.4 | 76.2 |
| 34 | Purulia | Chitta Ranjan Mahata | AIFB | 426,779 | 104,892 | 24.6 | 61.2 |
| 35 | Bankura | Acharia Basudeb | CPIM | 459,862 | 43,911 | 9.5 | 63.8 |
| 36 | Vishnupur | Ajit Kumar Saha | CPIM | 527,721 | 110,200 | 20.9 | 76.2 |
| 37 | DurgapurSC | Krishna Chandra Halder | CPIM | 513,170 | 95,187 | 18.5 | 69.4 |
| 38 | AsansolSC | Ananda Gopal Mukhopadhya | INCI | 423,787 | 9,652 | 2.3 | 55.5 |
| 39 | Burdwan | Sushil Kumar Bhattacharya | CPIM | 558,707 | 119,727 | 21.4 | 74.0 |
| 40 | Katwa | Saifuddin Chwdhury | CPIM | 549,368 | 121,160 | 22.1 | 77.0 |
| 41 | BolpurSC | Saradish Roy | CPIM | 493,812 | 68,629 | 13.9 | 74.0 |
| 42 | Birbhum | Gadadhar Saha | CPIM | 441,811 | 40,663 | 9.2 | 67.2 |