Constituency
82. Barasat
Community mirrorWest Bengal Assembly Election, 1969
WB-BARASAT
FBL 46.8%won by 12.5%INC 34.2%
What changed here
DerivedFBL held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 17.9% to 12.5%.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 11.6% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 81.0% between them, down from 98.8% — 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
59,074
Margin
7,410
12.54%
Candidates
6 contested · winner FBL- 1SARAL DEBFBL · FBL27,62646.8%
- 2ASHOKE KRISHNA DUTTIndian National Congress · INC20,21634.2%
- 3S. AHASANPML · PML10,09017.1%
- 4PRIYABRATA CHATTERJEEBiju Janata Dal · BJD8681.5%
- 5MD. HABIBUR RAHIMMIL · MIL1400.2%
- 6APURBA KUMAR CHATTERJEENDF · NDF1340.2%
Since 1967
Derived- Winner then
- FBL
- Winner now
- FBL
- FBL–INC swing
- −5.4%
- FBL share
- 58.3% → 46.8%
- INC share
- 40.4% → 34.2%
- Turnout
- — → —