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Won
Samar Mukherjee
CPIM Communist Party Of India (MARXIST)Margin
58,309 11.5 pp
votes
over Nityananda Dey (INCI)
The contest
Electors7,76,251
Votes polled5,08,728
Turnout65.5%
NOTA
did not exist
NOTA was introduced in 2013
Male electors4.9 L63.2% of electorate
Female electors2.86 L36.8% of electorate
Sex ratio
583females per 1,000 males
Poll datenot digitised
polling dates are sparse before 2005
Candidates
| # | Candidate | Party | Votes | Share | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Samar Mukherjee | CPIM | 2,63,337 | 51.80% | |
| 2 | Nityananda Dey | INCI | 2,05,028 | 40.30% | |
| 3 | Durgaprasad Nathany | JP | 18,538 | 3.60% | |
| 4 | Dwijendra Lal Ghosh | JPS | 4,718 | 0.90% | |
| 5 | Jibandhan Mukhopadhya | IND | 1,661 | 0.30% | |
| 6 | Sailendra Nath Ghosh | IND | 1,527 | 0.30% | |
| 7 | Asit Chakravarty | IND | 905 | 0.20% | |
| 8 | Karuna Nidhan Roy | IND | 580 | 0.10% | |
| 9 | Surya Narain Singh | IND | 571 | 0.10% |
Reconciliation
Candidate votes do not account for the published total. Closest residual is 11,863, whether NOTA is counted inside the total or outside it.
candidates 496,865 · NOTA n/a · published 508,728 · neither convention holds
Reconciliation failed
Constituency-wise results, Lok Sabha 1980
- Publisher
- Election Commission of India
- Retrieved
- 2026-09-12