Constituency
247. Asansol
Community mirrorWest Bengal Assembly Election, 1967
WB-ASANSOL
INC 45.0%won by 11.1%CPM 33.9%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Communist Party of India (CPI) lost it to Indian National Congress (INC), which now leads by 11.1%.
Boundaries were redrawn between 1962 and 1967 — the comparison is matched by name and is indicative only.
- INC vote shareINC went from 27.7% to 45.0% of the vote here (+17.3%).
- New challengerCommunist Party of India (Marxist) (CPM) finished second with 33.9% — it did not contest here in 1962.
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 78.9% of the vote between them, up from 71.4% — 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
37,946
Margin
4,194
11.05%
Candidates
5 contested · winner INCSince 1962
DerivedConstituency boundaries were redrawn between 1962 and 1967. Matched by name — treat this comparison as indicative only.
- Winner then
- CPI
- Winner now
- INCflipped
- INC–CPM swing
- −16.6%
- INC share
- 27.7% → 45.0%
- CPM share
- 0.0% → 33.9%
- Turnout
- — → —