Constituency
58. Berhampore
Community mirrorWest Bengal Assembly Election, 1969
WB-BERHAMPORE
CPI 48.7%won by 25.8%INC 22.9%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Indian National Congress (INC) lost it to Communist Party of India (CPI), which now leads by 25.8%.
- CPI vote shareCPI went from 16.9% to 48.7% of the vote here (+31.8%).
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 71.6% of the vote between them, up from 62.2% — 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
47,240
Margin
12,183
25.79%
Candidates
5 contested · winner CPI- 1SANAT KUMAR RAHACommunist Party of India · CPI23,01448.7%
- 2SREEPADA BHATTACHARYYAIndian National Congress · INC10,83122.9%
- 3SANKARDAS PAULBiju Janata Dal · BJD5,64011.9%
- 4MONDAL KAMALLUDDINPML · PML5,07810.7%
- 5S . C . MUKHERJEEBharatiya Jana Sangh · BJS2,6775.7%
Since 1967
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- CPIflipped
- CPI–INC swing
- +48.4%
- CPI share
- 16.9% → 48.7%
- INC share
- 39.5% → 22.9%
- Turnout
- — → —