Constituency
79. Bongaon
Community mirrorWest Bengal Assembly Election, 1969
WB-BONGAON
CPI 56.4%won by 14.4%INC 42.0%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Indian National Congress (INC) lost it to Communist Party of India (CPI), which now leads by 14.4%.
- CPI vote shareCPI went from 26.2% to 56.4% of the vote here (+30.2%).
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 98.4% of the vote between them, up from 61.3% — 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
49,541
Margin
7,119
14.37%
Candidates
4 contested · winner CPI- 1AJIT KUMAR GANGULYCommunist Party of India · CPI27,93156.4%
- 2KALIPADA BHOWMICKIndian National Congress · INC20,81242.0%
- 3KRISHNAPADA MONDALRPI · RPI5901.2%
- 4KRISHNAPADA MUKHERJEEPBI · PBI2080.4%
Since 1967
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- CPIflipped
- CPI–INC swing
- +23.3%
- CPI share
- 26.2% → 56.4%
- INC share
- 35.1% → 42.0%
- Turnout
- — → —