Constituency
17. Mal
Community mirrorWest Bengal Assembly Election, 1967
WB-MAL
INC 54.3%won by 28.3%CPI 26.1%
What changed here
DerivedIndian National Congress held the seat; the winning margin widened from 25.8% to 28.3%.
Boundaries were redrawn between 1962 and 1967 — the comparison is matched by name and is indicative only.
- Safe seatIndian National Congress won by more than 25 points — a stronghold, not a contest.
- Multi-cornered3 candidates cleared 5% — a genuinely multi-cornered fight.
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
40,660
Margin
11,495
28.27%
Candidates
3 contested · winner INC- 1A.TOPNAIndian National Congress · INC22,09554.3%
- 2A.ORAONCommunist Party of India · CPI10,60026.1%
- 3M.BHAKATPraja Socialist Party · PSP7,96519.6%
Since 1962
DerivedConstituency boundaries were redrawn between 1962 and 1967. Matched by name — treat this comparison as indicative only.
- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- INC
- INC–CPI swing
- +2.5%
- INC share
- 52.1% → 54.3%
- CPI share
- 26.3% → 26.1%
- Turnout
- — → —