Constituency
68. Chapra
Community mirrorWest Bengal Assembly Election, 1969
WB-CHAPRA
BAC 40.5%won by 0.7%INC 39.8%
What changed here
DerivedBAC held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 30.0% to 0.7%.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 19.8% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 80.2% between them, down from 90.4% — 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
44,956
Margin
313
0.70%
Candidates
5 contested · winner BAC- 1SALIL BEHARI HUNDLEBAC · BAC18,19440.5%
- 2SIB SANKAR BANDOPADHAYAYIndian National Congress · INC17,88139.8%
- 3MONDAL ABU BAKKARPML · PML8,15518.1%
- 4ARUN CHANDRA MONDALPBI · PBI3680.8%
- 5TARAN KUMAR MONDALNDF · NDF3580.8%
Since 1967
Derived- Winner then
- BAC
- Winner now
- BAC
- BAC–INC swing
- −29.4%
- BAC share
- 60.2% → 40.5%
- INC share
- 30.2% → 39.8%
- Turnout
- — → —