Constituency
45. Kaliachak
Community mirrorWest Bengal Assembly Election, 1969
WB-KALIACHAK
INC 35.5%won by 9.7%IND 25.8%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Communist Party of India (Marxist) (CPM) lost it to Indian National Congress (INC), which now leads by 9.7%.
- INC vote shareINC went from 30.9% to 35.5% of the vote here (+4.6%).
- New challengerIndependent (IND) finished second with 25.8% — it did not contest here in 1967.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 61.4% between them, down from 72.6% — the field split more ways.
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
49,118
Margin
4,761
9.69%
Candidates
6 contested · winner INC- 1SHAMSUDDIN AHMADIndian National Congress · INC17,45735.5%
- 2PROMODE RANJAN BOSEIndependent · IND12,69625.8%
- 3NUHULL ISLAMCommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM7,81215.9%
- 4MONI BHUSHAN SARKARNDF · NDF7,07114.4%
- 5BIBHUTI BHUSAN MISRABharatiya Jana Sangh · BJS3,9228.0%
- 6HAJI MOHAMED ABDUS SATTARSwatantra Party · SWA1600.3%
Since 1967
Derived- Winner then
- CPM
- Winner now
- INCflipped
- INC–IND swing
- −21.2%
- INC share
- 30.9% → 35.5%
- IND share
- 0.0% → 25.8%
- Turnout
- — → —