Constituency
248. Raniganj
Community mirrorWest Bengal Assembly Election, 1967
WB-RANIGANJ
CPM 48.1%won by 2.8%INC 45.4%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Communist Party of India (CPI) lost it to Communist Party of India (Marxist) (CPM), which now leads by 2.8%.
Boundaries were redrawn between 1962 and 1967 — the comparison is matched by name and is indicative only.
- CPM vote shareCPM went from 0.0% to 48.1% of the vote here (+48.1%).
- 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
35,336
Margin
983
2.78%
Candidates
3 contested · winner CPM- 1H . ROYCommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM17,01348.1%
- 2S . C . GHOSHIndian National Congress · INC16,03045.4%
- 3S . N . SHARMABharatiya Jana Sangh · BJS2,2936.5%
Since 1962
DerivedConstituency boundaries were redrawn between 1962 and 1967. Matched by name — treat this comparison as indicative only.
- Winner then
- CPI
- Winner now
- CPMflipped
- CPM–INC swing
- +42.5%
- CPM share
- 0.0% → 48.1%
- INC share
- 39.8% → 45.4%
- Turnout
- — → —