Constituency
41. Malda
Community mirrorWest Bengal Assembly Election, 1967
WB-MALDA
INC 49.1%won by 26.7%SWA 22.5%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Communist Party of India (CPI) lost it to Indian National Congress (INC), which now leads by 26.7%.
Boundaries were redrawn between 1962 and 1967 — the comparison is matched by name and is indicative only.
- INC vote shareINC went from 29.8% to 49.1% of the vote here (+19.4%).
- New challengerSwatantra Party (SWA) finished second with 22.5% — it did not contest here in 1962.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 71.6% between them, down from 82.2% — 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
39,487
Margin
10,530
26.67%
Candidates
5 contested · winner INC- 1M.S.MIAIndian National Congress · INC19,40749.1%
- 2N.CHOUDHURYSwatantra Party · SWA8,87722.5%
- 3S.C.CHOUDHURYIndependent · IND6,73717.1%
- 4T.SENBAC · BAC2,6006.6%
- 5R.K.AGARWALAIndependent · IND1,8664.7%
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–SWA swing
- −3.1%
- INC share
- 29.8% → 49.1%
- SWA share
- 0.0% → 22.5%
- Turnout
- — → —