Election
Constituency

212. Kharagpur Local

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West Bengal Assembly Election, 1967

WB-KHARAGPUR-LOCAL

CPI 55.9%won by 11.7%INC 44.1%

What changed here

Derived

The 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
not in source
Turnout
not in source
Valid votes
36,816
Margin
4,322
11.74%

Candidates

2 contested · winner CPI
  1. 1D . DASCommunist Party of India · CPI20,56955.9%
  2. 2L . N . PAULIndian National Congress · INC16,24744.1%

Since 1962

Derived

Constituency boundaries were redrawn between 1962 and 1967. Matched by name — treat this comparison as indicative only.

Winner then
INC
Winner now
CPIflipped
CPIINC swing
+26.4%
CPI share
39.4% 55.9%
INC share
54.1% 44.1%
Turnout