Constituency
46. Farakka
Community mirrorWest Bengal Assembly Election, 1969
WB-FARAKKA
BAC 31.8%won by 1.7%PML 30.2%
What changed here
DerivedBAC held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 36.8% to 1.7%.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 27.7% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
- New challengerPML (PML) finished second with 30.2% — it did not contest here in 1967.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 62.0% between them, down from 82.3% — 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
40,693
Margin
679
1.67%
Candidates
6 contested · winner BAC- 1SK. SAHADAT HOSSAINBAC · BAC12,95131.8%
- 2ZOHAD AHMEDPML · PML12,27230.2%
- 3NUR MOHAMMAD BISWASIndian National Congress · INC7,28317.9%
- 4SATYADEB GUPTABharatiya Jana Sangh · BJS6,92617.0%
- 5T . A . NURAN NABIIndependent · IND9762.4%
- 6M . A . HANNAN ALHAJSwatantra Party · SWA2850.7%
Since 1967
Derived- Winner then
- BAC
- Winner now
- BAC
- BAC–PML swing
- −57.9%
- BAC share
- 59.6% → 31.8%
- PML share
- 0.0% → 30.2%
- Turnout
- — → —