Constituency
25. Chopra
Community mirrorWest Bengal Assembly Election, 1967
WB-CHOPRA
INC 24.9%won by 3.0%CPM 21.9%
What changed here
DerivedIndian National Congress held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 25.1% to 3.0%.
Boundaries were redrawn between 1962 and 1967 — the comparison is matched by name and is indicative only.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 21.3% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
- New challengerCommunist Party of India (Marxist) (CPM) finished second with 21.9% — it did not contest here in 1962.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 46.8% between them, down from 67.3% — 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
29,461
Margin
881
2.99%
Candidates
7 contested · winner INC- 1A.CHOWDHURYIndian National Congress · INC7,33024.9%
- 2B.MUNSHICommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM6,44921.9%
- 3S.A.Q.JALALUDDINIndependent · IND6,21421.1%
- 4K.SETHIndependent · IND4,01613.6%
- 5M.G.RABBANICommunist Party of India · CPI2,3988.1%
- 6A.R.DASPraja Socialist Party · PSP2,1677.4%
- 7P.N.NEOGIIndependent · IND8873.0%
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–CPM swing
- −43.2%
- INC share
- 46.2% → 24.9%
- CPM share
- 0.0% → 21.9%
- Turnout
- — → —