Constituency
186. Ghatal
Community mirrorWest Bengal Assembly Election, 1967
WB-GHATAL
CPM 44.1%won by 11.9%INC 32.2%
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 11.9%.
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 44.1% of the vote here (+44.1%).
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 76.4% between them, down from 100.0% — 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
42,274
Margin
5,012
11.86%
Candidates
3 contested · winner CPM- 1N . R . DALCommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM18,64544.1%
- 2H . N . DOLUIIndian National Congress · INC13,63332.2%
- 3K . DOLUIBAC · BAC9,99623.6%
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
- +53.0%
- CPM share
- 0.0% → 44.1%
- INC share
- 41.1% → 32.2%
- Turnout
- — → —