Constituency
112. Magrahat West
Community mirrorWest Bengal Assembly Election, 1969
WB-MAGRAHAT-WEST
BAC 34.1%won by 7.8%LKD 26.3%
What changed here
DerivedBAC held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 14.7% to 7.8%.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 13.3% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
- New challengerLKD (LKD) finished second with 26.3% — it did not contest here in 1967.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 60.4% between them, down from 80.2% — 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
58,973
Margin
4,606
7.81%
Candidates
5 contested · winner BAC- 1SACHINDRANATH MONDALBAC · BAC20,12634.1%
- 2SUDHENDU MUNDLELKD · LKD15,52026.3%
- 3JYONAL ABDINIndian National Congress · INC15,27325.9%
- 4ADUL HAMHEMIndependent · IND7,21312.2%
- 5ASRAF ALIPraja Socialist Party · PSP8411.4%
Since 1967
Derived- Winner then
- BAC
- Winner now
- BAC
- BAC–LKD swing
- −39.6%
- BAC share
- 47.4% → 34.1%
- LKD share
- 0.0% → 26.3%
- Turnout
- — → —