Constituency
53. Murshidabad
Community mirrorWest Bengal Assembly Election, 1969
WB-MURSHIDABAD
INC 39.8%won by 5.2%IND 34.6%
What changed here
DerivedIndian National Congress held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 17.6% to 5.2%.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 13.3% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 74.5% between them, down from 88.6% — 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
42,603
Margin
2,216
5.20%
Candidates
5 contested · winner INC- 1MOHAMMAD IDRIS ALIIndian National Congress · INC16,97039.8%
- 2SYED KAZIM ALI MEERZAIndependent · IND14,75434.6%
- 3SARKAR MD. NURUL HOSSAINPML · PML5,29212.4%
- 4D . C . TALUKDARBharatiya Jana Sangh · BJS4,87411.4%
- 5FATHEYAH ALINDF · NDF7131.7%
Since 1967
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- INC
- INC–IND swing
- −12.4%
- INC share
- 53.1% → 39.8%
- IND share
- 35.5% → 34.6%
- Turnout
- — → —