Constituency
81. Ashokenagar
Community mirrorWest Bengal Assembly Election, 1969
WB-ASHOKENAGAR
CPI 56.5%won by 25.1%INC 31.4%
What changed here
DerivedCommunist Party of India held the seat; the winning margin widened from 2.1% to 25.1%.
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 87.9% of the vote between them, up from 66.0% — a tighter two-way contest.
- Safe seatCommunist Party of India won by more than 25 points — a stronghold, not a contest.
- Multi-cornered3 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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Turnout
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Valid votes
54,418
Margin
13,664
25.11%
Candidates
4 contested · winner CPI- 1SADHAN KUMAR SENCommunist Party of India · CPI30,73956.5%
- 2K.R. CHATTOPADHAYAIndian National Congress · INC17,07531.4%
- 3ABDUR RASHID MALLICKPML · PML6,02011.1%
- 4PARITOSH KUMAR SARKARBiju Janata Dal · BJD5841.1%
Since 1967
Derived- Winner then
- CPI
- Winner now
- CPI
- CPI–INC swing
- +23.0%
- CPI share
- 34.0% → 56.5%
- INC share
- 32.0% → 31.4%
- Turnout
- — → —