Constituency
8. Tufanganj
Community mirrorWest Bengal Assembly Election, 1967
WB-TUFANGANJ
INC 55.7%won by 31.6%CPM 24.1%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Communist Party of India (CPI) lost it to Indian National Congress (INC), which now leads by 31.6%.
Boundaries were redrawn between 1962 and 1967 — the comparison is matched by name and is indicative only.
- INC vote shareINC went from 41.4% to 55.7% of the vote here (+14.3%).
- New challengerCommunist Party of India (Marxist) (CPM) finished second with 24.1% — it did not contest here in 1962.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 79.8% between them, down from 93.7% — 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
48,970
Margin
15,488
31.63%
Candidates
4 contested · winner INC- 1I.S.SENIndian National Congress · INC27,28355.7%
- 2D.C.KARJEECommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM11,79524.1%
- 3D.N.BARMASwatantra Party · SWA7,20214.7%
- 4B.NANDESWARCommunist Party of India · CPI2,6905.5%
Since 1962
DerivedConstituency boundaries were redrawn between 1962 and 1967. Matched by name — treat this comparison as indicative only.
- Winner then
- CPI
- Winner now
- INCflipped
- INC–CPM swing
- −9.8%
- INC share
- 41.4% → 55.7%
- CPM share
- 0.0% → 24.1%
- Turnout
- — → —