Constituency
212. Kharagpur Local
Community mirrorWest Bengal Assembly Election, 1967
WB-KHARAGPUR-LOCAL
CPI 55.9%won by 11.7%INC 44.1%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Indian National Congress (INC) lost it to Communist Party of India (CPI), which now leads by 11.7%.
Boundaries were redrawn between 1962 and 1967 — the comparison is matched by name and is indicative only.
- CPI vote shareCPI went from 39.4% to 55.9% of the vote here (+16.5%).
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 100.0% of the vote between them, up from 93.5% — 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
36,816
Margin
4,322
11.74%
Candidates
2 contested · winner CPI- 1D . DASCommunist Party of India · CPI20,56955.9%
- 2L . N . PAULIndian National Congress · INC16,24744.1%
Since 1962
DerivedConstituency boundaries were redrawn between 1962 and 1967. Matched by name — treat this comparison as indicative only.
- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- CPIflipped
- CPI–INC swing
- +26.4%
- CPI share
- 39.4% → 55.9%
- INC share
- 54.1% → 44.1%
- Turnout
- — → —