Constituency
10. Kalchini
Community mirrorWest Bengal Assembly Election, 1969
WB-KALCHINI
INC 63.2%won by 27.5%RSP 35.6%
What changed here
DerivedIndian National Congress held the seat; the winning margin widened from 11.9% to 27.5%.
- New challengerRashtriya Sarvajan Party (RSP) finished second with 35.6% — it did not contest here in 1967.
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 98.8% of the vote between them, up from 90.2% — 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
27,141
Margin
7,477
27.55%
Candidates
3 contested · winner INC- 1DENIS LAKRAIndian National Congress · INC17,14863.2%
- 2JOHN ARTHUR BUKHLA URAORashtriya Sarvajan Party · RSP9,67135.6%
- 3RAMPAEL TOPPONDF · NDF3221.2%
Since 1967
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- INC
- INC–RSP swing
- −23.5%
- INC share
- 51.1% → 63.2%
- RSP share
- 0.0% → 35.6%
- Turnout
- — → —