Constituency
260. Jamal Pur
Community mirrorWest Bengal Assembly Election, 1967
WB-JAMAL-PUR
INC 64.5%won by 39.7%CPM 24.9%
What changed here
DerivedIndian National Congress held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 54.3% to 39.7%.
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 12.6% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
- New challengerCommunist Party of India (Marxist) (CPM) finished second with 24.9% — it did not contest here in 1962.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 89.4% between them, down from 100.0% — the field split more ways.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
—
not in source
Turnout
—
not in source
Valid votes
34,906
Margin
13,852
39.68%
Candidates
3 contested · winner INC- 1P . PRAMANIKIndian National Congress · INC22,52864.5%
- 2T . SARKARCommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM8,67624.9%
- 3S . P . DHARAPraja Socialist Party · PSP3,70210.6%
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–CPM swing
- −37.4%
- INC share
- 77.1% → 64.5%
- CPM share
- 0.0% → 24.9%
- Turnout
- — → —