Constituency
211. Kharagpur
Community mirrorWest Bengal Assembly Election, 1967
WB-KHARAGPUR
CPI 49.0%won by 4.7%INC 44.3%
What changed here
DerivedCommunist Party of India held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 12.8% to 4.7%.
Boundaries were redrawn between 1962 and 1967 — the comparison is matched by name and is indicative only.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 3.0% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
- Multi-cornered3 candidates cleared 5% — a genuinely multi-cornered fight.
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
41,053
Margin
1,932
4.71%
Candidates
3 contested · winner CPISince 1962
DerivedConstituency boundaries were redrawn between 1962 and 1967. Matched by name — treat this comparison as indicative only.
- Winner then
- CPI
- Winner now
- CPI
- CPI–INC swing
- −8.1%
- CPI share
- 52.0% → 49.0%
- INC share
- 39.2% → 44.3%
- Turnout
- — → —