Constituency
276. Mayureswar
Community mirrorWest Bengal Assembly Election, 1967
WB-MAYURESWAR
INC 50.9%won by 26.3%CPM 24.6%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Communist Party of India (CPI) lost it to Indian National Congress (INC), which now leads by 26.3%.
Boundaries were redrawn between 1962 and 1967 — the comparison is matched by name and is indicative only.
- INC vote shareINC went from 39.2% to 50.9% of the vote here (+11.7%).
- New challengerCommunist Party of India (Marxist) (CPM) finished second with 24.6% — it did not contest here in 1962.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 75.5% between them, down from 83.5% — 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
29,768
Margin
7,818
26.26%
Candidates
4 contested · winner INC- 1K . SAHAIndian National Congress · INC15,14950.9%
- 2P . LETCommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM7,33124.6%
- 3L . FULMALICommunist Party of India · CPI5,73819.3%
- 4B . P . DASIndependent · IND1,5505.2%
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
- −12.9%
- INC share
- 39.2% → 50.9%
- CPM share
- 0.0% → 24.6%
- Turnout
- — → —