Constituency
264. Manteswar
Community mirrorWest Bengal Assembly Election, 1967
WB-MANTESWAR
INC 56.8%won by 19.4%CPM 37.4%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Communist Party of India (CPI) lost it to Indian National Congress (INC), which now leads by 19.4%.
Boundaries were redrawn between 1962 and 1967 — the comparison is matched by name and is indicative only.
- INC vote shareINC went from 49.4% to 56.8% of the vote here (+7.4%).
- New challengerCommunist Party of India (Marxist) (CPM) finished second with 37.4% — it did not contest here in 1962.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 94.2% 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
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Turnout
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Valid votes
45,134
Margin
8,764
19.42%
Candidates
3 contested · winner INC- 1N . C . CHAUDHURIIndian National Congress · INC25,63156.8%
- 2S . A . M . HABIBULLAHCommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM16,86737.4%
- 3M . BRAHMACHARIFBL · FBL2,6365.8%
Since 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
- −30.0%
- INC share
- 49.4% → 56.8%
- CPM share
- 0.0% → 37.4%
- Turnout
- — → —