Constituency
168. Chanditala
Community mirrorWest Bengal Assembly Election, 1967
WB-CHANDITALA
IND 37.7%won by 11.2%INC 26.5%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Indian National Congress (INC) lost it to Independent (IND), which now leads by 11.2%.
Boundaries were redrawn between 1962 and 1967 — the comparison is matched by name and is indicative only.
- IND vote shareIND went from 0.0% to 37.7% of the vote here (+37.7%).
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 64.2% between them, down from 95.6% — 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
45,987
Margin
5,130
11.16%
Candidates
5 contested · winner IND- 1M . A . LATIFIndependent · IND17,31737.7%
- 2S . S . BUKHSHIndian National Congress · INC12,18726.5%
- 3K . K . BASUCommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM10,27222.3%
- 4M . BHATTACHARJYACommunist Party of India · CPI3,3797.3%
- 5S . C . KOLAYIndependent · IND2,8326.2%
Since 1962
DerivedConstituency boundaries were redrawn between 1962 and 1967. Matched by name — treat this comparison as indicative only.
- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- INDflipped
- IND–INC swing
- +59.3%
- IND share
- 0.0% → 37.7%
- INC share
- 48.1% → 26.5%
- Turnout
- — → —