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Constituency

80. Gaighata

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West Bengal Assembly Election, 1969

WB-GAIGHATA

BAC 45.8%won by 6.1%INC 39.6%

What changed here

Derived

BAC held the seat; the winning margin widened from 5.4% to 6.1%.

  • Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 85.4% of the vote between them, up from 73.0% — a tighter two-way contest.
  • Multi-cornered4 candidates cleared 5% — a genuinely multi-cornered fight.

Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.

Electorate
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not in source
Turnout
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Valid votes
47,820
Margin
2,931
6.13%

Candidates

6 contested · winner BAC
  1. 1PARUL SAHABAC · BAC21,88845.8%
  2. 2CHANDIPADA MITRAIndian National Congress · INC18,95739.6%
  3. 3HARIPADA BHARATIBharatiya Jana Sangh · BJS3,7927.9%
  4. 4VIBEKANANDA BISWASRPI · RPI2,5545.3%
  5. 5NARENDRA MALLICKPBI · PBI4130.9%
  6. 6AJIT KUMAR DASLKD · LKD2160.5%

Since 1967

Derived
Winner then
BAC
Winner now
BAC
BAC–INC swing
+0.8%
BAC share
39.2% → 45.8%
INC share
33.8% → 39.6%
Turnout
— → —
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