1980
19771971196719621957Total Constituencies: 42
West Bengal Lok Sabha Election 1980 covered all 42 parliamentary constituencies in the state. The CPM received the highest statewide vote share at 39.91% and won 28 seats, while the INC(I) received 36.51% of the vote and won 4 seats. The RSP won 4 seats with 5.22% of the vote.
The table below shows party-wise results based on total votes received across West Bengal.
| Party Name | Seats Contested | Seats Won | Vote Share | Vote Share on Contested | Total Votes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CPM | 31 | 28 | 39.91% | 53.79% | 81,99,926 |
| INC(I) | 41 | 4 | 36.51% | 37.49% | 75,00,578 |
| 4 | 4 | 5.22% | 54.46% | 10,71,623 | |
| FBL | 4 | 3 | 4.56% | 51.92% | 9,36,012 |
| JNP | 35 | 0 | 4.53% | 5.44% | 9,31,154 |
| 3 | 3 | 4.28% | 57.44% | 8,78,793 |
| Constituency | Winner | Runner-up | Margin | Margin(%) | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Candidate | Party | Votes | Candidate | Party | Votes | |||
| Cooch Behar (Sc) | Amar Roy Pradhan | FBL | 3,04,158 | Ambika Charan Roy | INC(I) | 1,86,012 | 1,18,146 | 23.08 |
| Alipurduars (St) | Pius Tirkey | RSP | 2,43,485 | Tuna Oraon | INC(I) | 1,28,028 | 1,15,457 | 28.45 |
| Jalpaiguri | Subodh Sen | CPM | 2,32,751 | Sriram Singh | INC(I) | 1,42,355 | 90,396 | 20.97 |
| Darjeeling | Ananda Pathak | CPM | 1,85,612 | K.B. Chettri | INC(I) | 1,67,451 | 18,161 | 4.48 |
| Raiganj | Golam Yazdani | INC(I) | 1,96,241 | Abdul Hafiz | CPM | 1,94,936 | 1,305 | 0.28 |
| Balurghat (Sc) | Barman Palas | RSP | 2,84,766 | Ranajit Sarkar | INC(I) | 2,04,438 | 80,328 | 15.73 |
| Malda | Abdul Barkat Ataul Ghani Khan Chawdhury | INC(I) | 2,51,952 | Dinesh Chandra Joarder | CPM | 2,39,193 | 12,759 | 2.6 |
| Jangipur | Zainal Abedin | CPM | 2,68,932 | Lutfal Haque | INC(I) | 1,96,106 | 72,826 | 14.84 |
| Murshidabad | Masudal Hassain Syed | CPM | 2,91,325 | Abdus Sattar | INC(I) | 2,22,570 | 68,755 | 11.87 |
| Berhampore | Tridib Chaudhari | RSP | 3,07,328 | Jagadish Sinha | INC(I) | 2,15,059 | 92,269 | 17.24 |
| Krishnagar | Renupada Das | CPM | 2,55,568 | Sankar Das Banerji | INC(I) | 1,89,377 | 66,191 | 13.16 |
| Nabadwip (Sc) | Bidha Gohse (Goswami) | CPM | 3,01,296 | Anada Mohan Biswas | INC(I) | 2,17,831 | 83,465 | 15.15 |
| Barasat | Chitta Basu | FBL | 2,97,758 | Harasit Ghosh | INC(I) | 2,03,838 | 93,920 | 16.73 |
| Basirhat | Indrajit Gupta | CPI | 3,11,121 | Abdul Gaffar Quazi | INC(I) | 2,15,267 | 95,854 | 17.76 |
| Joynagar (Sc) | Sanat Kumar Mandal | RSP | 2,36,044 | Gobinda Chandra Naskar | INC(I) | 1,87,515 | 48,529 | 9.4 |
| Mathurapur (Sc) | Mukundaram Mandal | CPM | 2,62,917 | Bimlendu Sekhar Naskar | INC(I) | 1,85,075 | 77,842 | 15.28 |
| Diamond Harbour | Jyotirmoy Basu | CPM | 3,10,406 | A.K.M. Ishaque | INC(I) | 1,64,474 | 1,45,932 | 29.98 |
| Jadavpur | Somnath Chatterjee | CPM | 3,09,094 | Sachinath Mitra | INC(I) | 1,62,979 | 1,46,115 | 28.36 |
| Barrackpore | Mahammed Ismail | CPM | 2,66,698 | Devi Ghosal | INC(I) | 1,62,773 | 1,03,925 | 22.11 |
| Dum Dum | Niren Ghosh | CPM | 3,68,214 | Barid Baran Das | INC(I) | 2,02,542 | 1,65,672 | 27.48 |
| Calcutta North West | Ashoke Kumar Sen | INC(I) | 1,50,476 | Shyam Sundar Gupta | FBL | 1,06,643 | 43,833 | 13.96 |
| Calcutta North East | Sunil Moitra | CPM | 1,87,951 | Ajit Kumar Panja | INC(I) | 1,60,882 | 27,069 | 6.9 |
| Calcutta South | Satya Sadhan Chakrabarty | CPM | 2,13,441 | Bholanath Sen | INC(I) | 1,76,432 | 37,009 | 8 |
| Howrah | Samar Mukherjee | CPM | 2,63,337 | Nityananda Dey | INC(I) | 2,05,028 | 58,309 | 11.74 |
| Uluberia | Hannan Mollah | CPM | 3,04,332 | Ardhendu Hazra | INC(I) | 1,65,254 | 1,39,078 | 27.76 |
| Serampore | Dinen Bhattacharya | CPM | 2,92,993 | Gopal Das Nag | INC(I) | 1,86,886 | 1,06,107 | 21.7 |
| Hooghly | Rup Chand Pal | CPM | 2,80,605 | Santimohan Roy | INC(I) | 2,02,212 | 78,393 | 15.7 |
| Arambagh | Bijoy Krishna Modak | CPM | 2,85,633 | Prafulla Chandra Sen | JNP | 2,42,642 | 42,991 | 8.01 |
| Panskura | Gita Mukherjee | CPI | 2,91,528 | Rajani Kanta Dolai | INC(I) | 1,93,298 | 98,230 | 19.24 |
| Tamluk | Misra Satyagopal | CPM | 3,07,864 | Shyam Das Bhattacharyya | INC(I) | 1,84,813 | 1,23,051 | 22.78 |
| Contai | Giri Sudhir Kumar | CPM | 2,37,002 | Pradip Sarkar | INC(I) | 1,47,228 | 89,774 | 19.05 |
| Midnapore | Narayan Choubey | CPI | 2,76,144 | Sudhir Kumar Ghosal | INC(I) | 1,51,793 | 1,24,351 | 25.93 |
| Jhargram (St) | Hasada Matilal | CPM | 2,57,936 | Tushar Tudu | INC(I) | 1,59,767 | 98,169 | 19.99 |
| Purulia | Chitta Ranjan Mahata | FBL | 2,27,453 | Ram Pada Singha | INC(I) | 1,22,561 | 1,04,892 | 25.26 |
| Bankura | Acharia Basudeb | CPM | 1,99,557 | Singh Deo Sahankar Narayan | INC(I) | 1,55,646 | 43,911 | 9.91 |
| Vishnupur (Sc) | Ajit Kumar Saha | CPM | 2,99,289 | Tulsi Das Mandal | INC(I) | 1,89,089 | 1,10,200 | 21.46 |
| Durgapur (Sc) | Krishna Chandra Halder | CPM | 2,85,369 | Surya Kumar Roy | INC(I) | 1,90,182 | 95,187 | 19.1 |
| Asansol | Ananda Gopal Mukhopadhya | INC(I) | 1,75,703 | Robin Sen | CPM | 1,66,051 | 9,652 | 2.36 |
| Burdwan | Sushil Kumar Bhattacharya | CPM | 3,20,990 | Chowdhury Narayan | INC(I) | 2,01,263 | 1,19,727 | 21.99 |
| Katwa | Saifuddin Chwdhury | CPM | 3,22,080 | Dhirendra Nath Basu | INC(I) | 2,00,920 | 1,21,160 | 22.56 |
| Bolpur | Saradish Roy | CPM | 2,64,798 | Pranab Kumar Mukherjee | INC(I) | 1,96,169 | 68,629 | 14.25 |
| Birbhum (Sc) | Gadadhar Saha | CPM | 2,23,756 | Badal Chandra Bagdi | INC(I) | 1,83,093 | 40,663 | 9.43 |
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