Constituency
165. Amta
Community mirrorWest Bengal Assembly Election, 1967
WB-AMTA
CPM 58.7%won by 19.5%INC 39.2%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Indian National Congress (INC) lost it to Communist Party of India (Marxist) (CPM), which now leads by 19.5%.
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 58.7% of the vote here (+58.7%).
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 98.0% of the vote between them, up from 89.5% — a tighter two-way contest.
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
52,109
Margin
10,155
19.49%
Candidates
3 contested · winner CPM- 1N . BHANDARICommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM30,60358.7%
- 2T . PRAMANIKIndian National Congress · INC20,44839.2%
- 3B . GHORUIFBL · FBL1,0582.0%
Since 1962
DerivedConstituency boundaries were redrawn between 1962 and 1967. Matched by name — treat this comparison as indicative only.
- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- CPMflipped
- CPM–INC swing
- +69.8%
- CPM share
- 0.0% → 58.7%
- INC share
- 50.3% → 39.2%
- Turnout
- — → —