Constituency
29. Kaliaganj
Community mirrorWest Bengal Assembly Election, 1969
WB-KALIAGANJ
INC 54.9%won by 10.6%CPM 44.4%
What changed here
DerivedIndian National Congress held the seat; the winning margin widened from 2.3% to 10.6%.
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 99.3% of the vote between them, up from 81.8% — 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
35,809
Margin
3,783
10.56%
Candidates
3 contested · winner INC- 1BARMAN SYAMA PRASADIndian National Congress · INC19,67454.9%
- 2NANI GOPAL ROYCommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM15,89144.4%
- 3ROY BIDHU BHUSANNDF · NDF2440.7%
Since 1967
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- INC
- INC–CPM swing
- +8.3%
- INC share
- 42.1% → 54.9%
- CPM share
- 39.8% → 44.4%
- Turnout
- — → —