Constituency
268. Ketugram
Community mirrorWest Bengal Assembly Election, 1967
WB-KETUGRAM
INC 52.5%won by 5.1%CPM 47.5%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Communist Party of India (CPI) lost it to Indian National Congress (INC), which now leads by 5.1%.
Boundaries were redrawn between 1962 and 1967 — the comparison is matched by name and is indicative only.
- INC vote shareINC went from 23.3% to 52.5% of the vote here (+29.3%).
- New challengerCommunist Party of India (Marxist) (CPM) finished second with 47.5% — it did not contest here in 1962.
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 100.0% of the vote between them, up from 63.1% — 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
39,225
Margin
1,997
5.09%
Candidates
2 contested · winner INC- 1P. MANDALIndian National Congress · INC20,61152.5%
- 2N. DASCommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM18,61447.5%
Since 1962
DerivedConstituency boundaries were redrawn between 1962 and 1967. Matched by name — treat this comparison as indicative only.
- Winner then
- CPI
- Winner now
- INCflipped
- INC–CPM swing
- −18.2%
- INC share
- 23.3% → 52.5%
- CPM share
- 0.0% → 47.5%
- Turnout
- — → —