Constituency
104. Garden Reach
Community mirrorWest Bengal Assembly Election, 1969
WB-GARDEN-REACH
CPI 57.5%won by 38.3%LKD 19.2%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Indian National Congress (INC) lost it to Communist Party of India (CPI), which now leads by 38.3%.
- CPI vote shareCPI went from 0.0% to 57.5% of the vote here (+57.5%).
- New challengerLKD (LKD) finished second with 19.2% — it did not contest here in 1967.
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 76.7% of the vote between them, up from 68.3% — a tighter two-way contest.
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
51,939
Margin
19,917
38.35%
Candidates
7 contested · winner CPI- 1ARUN SENCommunist Party of India · CPI29,87157.5%
- 2S.M. ABDULLAHLKD · LKD9,95419.2%
- 3ABDUR RASHIDIndian National Congress · INC9,20317.7%
- 4ISLAM UDDIN LASKARPML · PML2,3774.6%
- 5RAMSHARANRPI · RPI3440.7%
- 6M.A. WAHIDNDF · NDF1160.2%
- 7SUBODH KUMAR PAULIndependent · IND740.1%
Since 1967
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- CPIflipped
- CPI–LKD swing
- +38.3%
- CPI share
- 0.0% → 57.5%
- LKD share
- 0.0% → 19.2%
- Turnout
- — → —