Constituency
37. Gajol
Community mirrorWest Bengal Assembly Election, 1969
WB-GAJOL
INC 52.1%won by 11.6%CPM 40.6%
What changed here
DerivedIndian National Congress held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 27.5% to 11.6%.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 4.1% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 92.7% of the vote between them, up from 85.0% — a tighter two-way contest.
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Electorate
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Turnout
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Valid votes
36,172
Margin
4,182
11.56%
Candidates
3 contested · winner INC- 1LAKSHAN SARENIndian National Congress · INC18,85952.1%
- 2DASU HEMRAMCommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM14,67740.6%
- 3SHYAM MURMUBharatiya Jana Sangh · BJS2,6367.3%
Since 1967
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- INC
- INC–CPM swing
- −16.0%
- INC share
- 56.3% → 52.1%
- CPM share
- 28.7% → 40.6%
- Turnout
- — → —