Constituency
219. Binpur
Community mirrorWest Bengal Assembly Election, 1967
WB-BINPUR
INC 40.1%won by 13.4%CPI 26.8%
What changed here
DerivedIndian National Congress held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 26.1% to 13.4%.
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 8.6% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
- Multi-cornered4 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
29,803
Margin
3,986
13.37%
Candidates
5 contested · winner INC- 1M . C . SARENIndian National Congress · INC11,96140.1%
- 2J . SARENCommunist Party of India · CPI7,97526.8%
- 3G . SINGHASamyukta Socialist Party · SSP4,44414.9%
- 4S . MURMUIndependent · IND4,28814.4%
- 5G . MURMUIndependent · IND1,1353.8%
Since 1962
DerivedConstituency boundaries were redrawn between 1962 and 1967. Matched by name — treat this comparison as indicative only.
- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- INC
- INC–CPI swing
- −12.7%
- INC share
- 48.7% → 40.1%
- CPI share
- 22.6% → 26.8%
- Turnout
- — → —