Constituency
88. Basirhat
Community mirrorWest Bengal Assembly Election, 1969
WB-BASIRHAT
CPI 51.1%won by 6.8%INC 44.4%
What changed here
DerivedCommunist Party of India held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 33.0% to 6.8%.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 13.5% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
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
54,120
Margin
3,655
6.75%
Candidates
5 contested · winner CPI- 1A.B. BANDYOPADHYAYACommunist Party of India · CPI27,66851.1%
- 2RADHAKISHORE GHOSHIndian National Congress · INC24,01344.4%
- 3MOSLEM UDDIN MONDALPML · PML1,3932.6%
- 4NABIBUR RAHAMANLKD · LKD9281.7%
- 5ANANDI KUMAR CHATTERJEEIndependent · IND1180.2%
Since 1967
Derived- Winner then
- CPI
- Winner now
- CPI
- CPI–INC swing
- −26.2%
- CPI share
- 64.6% → 51.1%
- INC share
- 31.6% → 44.4%
- Turnout
- — → —