Constituency
59. Kadamtala
Community mirrorTripura Assembly Election, 1972
TR-KADAMTALA
INC 40.7%won by 14.7%IND 26.1%
What changed here
DerivedIndian National Congress held the seat; the winning margin widened from 0.3% to 14.7%.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 6.6% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
- Runner-up changedSecond place passed from Communist Party of India (Marxist) (CPM) to Independent (IND).
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 66.8% between them, down from 94.4% — the field split more ways.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
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Turnout
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Valid votes
6,588
Margin
967
14.68%
Candidates
5 contested · winner INC- 1BENOY BHUSHAN BANERJEEIndian National Congress · INC2,68440.7%
- 2ABDUL RUPIndependent · IND1,71726.1%
- 3UMESH CHANDRA NATHCommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM1,30419.8%
- 4ANIL KRISHNA SARMAIndependent · IND5919.0%
- 5ARUN KANTI NATHFBL · FBL2924.4%
Since 1967
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- INC
- INC–IND swing
- −27.1%
- INC share
- 47.4% → 40.7%
- IND share
- 5.6% → 26.1%
- Turnout
- — → —