Constituency
6. Cooch Behar North
Community mirrorWest Bengal Assembly Election, 1969
WB-COOCH-BEHAR-NORTH
FBL 51.0%won by 4.9%INC 46.1%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Indian National Congress (INC) lost it to FBL (FBL), which now leads by 4.9%.
- FBL vote shareFBL went from 33.1% to 51.0% of the vote here (+17.9%).
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 97.0% of the vote between them, up from 70.8% — 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
46,709
Margin
2,296
4.92%
Candidates
5 contested · winner FBL- 1BIMAL KANTI BASUFBL · FBL23,81051.0%
- 2MATI RANJAN TARIndian National Congress · INC21,51446.1%
- 3BHATTACHARYA SIBENDRA KUMALKD · LKD5991.3%
- 4SANTOSH KUMAR SARKARPBI · PBI5781.2%
- 5HARI PADA PAULBharatiya Jana Sangh · BJS2080.4%
Since 1967
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- FBLflipped
- FBL–INC swing
- +9.6%
- FBL share
- 33.1% → 51.0%
- INC share
- 37.7% → 46.1%
- Turnout
- — → —