Constituency
28. Raiganj
Community mirrorWest Bengal Assembly Election, 1969
WB-RAIGANJ
CPM 43.0%won by 0.1%INC 42.9%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Praja Socialist Party (PSP) lost it to Communist Party of India (Marxist) (CPM), which now leads by 0.1%.
- CPM vote shareCPM went from 18.0% to 43.0% of the vote here (+25.1%).
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 85.9% of the vote between them, up from 72.3% — 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
44,447
Margin
44
0.10%
Candidates
5 contested · winner CPM- 1MANASH ROYCommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM19,11843.0%
- 2MOHIT RANJAN SIKDARIndian National Congress · INC19,07442.9%
- 3KUNDU NISHITHA NATHPraja Socialist Party · PSP5,50912.4%
- 4MANINDRA NATH ROYNDF · NDF3850.9%
- 5SUDHIR CHANDRA DEB NATHPBI · PBI3610.8%
Since 1967
Derived- Winner then
- PSP
- Winner now
- CPMflipped
- CPM–INC swing
- +13.0%
- CPM share
- 18.0% → 43.0%
- INC share
- 30.9% → 42.9%
- Turnout
- — → —