Constituency
18. Jalpaiguri
Community mirrorWest Bengal Assembly Election, 1969
WB-JALPAIGURI
CPI 51.2%won by 5.3%INC 45.9%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Indian National Congress (INC) lost it to Communist Party of India (CPI), which now leads by 5.3%.
- CPI vote shareCPI went from 28.7% to 51.2% of the vote here (+22.4%).
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 97.1% 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
54,488
Margin
2,876
5.28%
Candidates
4 contested · winner CPISince 1967
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- CPIflipped
- CPI–INC swing
- +18.6%
- CPI share
- 28.7% → 51.2%
- INC share
- 42.0% → 45.9%
- Turnout
- — → —