Constituency
103. Behala West
Community mirrorWest Bengal Assembly Election, 1969
WB-BEHALA-WEST
CPM 57.0%won by 23.9%INC 33.1%
What changed here
DerivedCommunist Party of India (Marxist) held the seat; the winning margin widened from 11.9% to 23.9%.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 90.1% between them, down from 100.0% — the field split more ways.
- 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
67,058
Margin
16,053
23.94%
Candidates
5 contested · winner CPM- 1RABIN MUKHERJEECommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM38,22357.0%
- 2RAMEN ROYIndian National Congress · INC22,17033.1%
- 3NASKAR HAJI ISPINDIARPML · PML5,1507.7%
- 4NIRODE BIHARI ROYRPI · RPI1,0301.5%
- 5SACHIN ROYLKD · LKD4850.7%
Since 1967
Derived- Winner then
- CPM
- Winner now
- CPM
- CPM–INC swing
- +12.1%
- CPM share
- 55.9% → 57.0%
- INC share
- 44.1% → 33.1%
- Turnout
- — → —