Constituency
99. Sonarpur
Community mirrorWest Bengal Assembly Election, 1967
WB-SONARPUR
CPM 36.1%won by 4.1%INC 32.0%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Communist Party of India (CPI) lost it to Communist Party of India (Marxist) (CPM), which now leads by 4.1%.
Boundaries were redrawn between 1962 and 1967 — the comparison is matched by name and is indicative only.
- CPM vote shareCPM went from 0.0% to 36.1% of the vote here (+36.1%).
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 68.1% between them, down from 82.0% — 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
49,893
Margin
2,039
4.09%
Candidates
6 contested · winner CPM- 1G.NASKARCommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM18,01936.1%
- 2G.SARDARIndian National Congress · INC15,98032.0%
- 3S.K.SAFUIIndependent · IND7,69115.4%
- 4H.MANDALCommunist Party of India · CPI4,4108.8%
- 5N.N.NASKARIndependent · IND3,5337.1%
- 6A.N.DALUIIndependent · IND2600.5%
Since 1962
DerivedConstituency boundaries were redrawn between 1962 and 1967. Matched by name — treat this comparison as indicative only.
- Winner then
- CPI
- Winner now
- CPMflipped
- CPM–INC swing
- +33.8%
- CPM share
- 0.0% → 36.1%
- INC share
- 29.7% → 32.0%
- Turnout
- — → —