Constituency
118. Bijpur
Community mirrorWest Bengal Assembly Election, 1967
WB-BIJPUR
CPM 38.7%won by 2.9%INC 35.8%
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 2.9%.
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 38.7% of the vote here (+38.7%).
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 74.6% between them, down from 90.7% — 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
45,613
Margin
1,314
2.88%
Candidates
6 contested · winner CPM- 1J.C.DASCommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM17,66238.7%
- 2P.GHOSHIndian National Congress · INC16,34835.8%
- 3N.BHATTACHARYACommunist Party of India · CPI8,46818.6%
- 4S.P.SINHAIndependent · IND2,0204.4%
- 5P.SINGOTEBharatiya Jana Sangh · BJS8301.8%
- 6J.KOIRIIndependent · IND2850.6%
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
- +46.3%
- CPM share
- 0.0% → 38.7%
- INC share
- 43.4% → 35.8%
- Turnout
- — → —