Constituency
79. Bongaon
Community mirrorWest Bengal Assembly Election, 1967
WB-BONGAON
INC 35.1%won by 9.0%CPI 26.2%
What changed here
DerivedIndian National Congress held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 25.5% to 9.0%.
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 21.7% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 61.3% between them, down from 88.3% — 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
50,484
Margin
4,521
8.96%
Candidates
5 contested · winner INC- 1K.BHOWMICKIndian National Congress · INC17,73635.1%
- 2A.K.GANGULICommunist Party of India · CPI13,21526.2%
- 3S.GHOSHCommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM12,06323.9%
- 4N.K.R.CHOUDHURIIndependent · IND6,73613.3%
- 5J.CHAKRABORTYIndependent · IND7341.5%
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
- −16.5%
- INC share
- 56.9% → 35.1%
- CPI share
- 31.4% → 26.2%
- Turnout
- — → —