Constituency
42. Englishbazar
Community mirrorWest Bengal Assembly Election, 1969
WB-ENGLISHBAZAR
CPI 54.8%won by 22.8%INC 32.0%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Indian National Congress (INC) lost it to Communist Party of India (CPI), which now leads by 22.8%.
- CPI vote shareCPI went from 24.9% to 54.8% of the vote here (+29.8%).
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 86.7% of the vote between them, up from 57.5% — 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
44,384
Margin
10,122
22.81%
Candidates
4 contested · winner CPI- 1BIMAL KANTI DASCommunist Party of India · CPI24,30654.8%
- 2SANTI GOPAL SENIndian National Congress · INC14,18432.0%
- 3HARIPRASANNA MISRABharatiya Jana Sangh · BJS5,21311.7%
- 4MD. HOSSAINNDF · NDF6811.5%
Since 1967
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- CPIflipped
- CPI–INC swing
- +30.4%
- CPI share
- 24.9% → 54.8%
- INC share
- 32.6% → 32.0%
- Turnout
- — → —