Constituency
116. Kakdwip
Community mirrorWest Bengal Assembly Election, 1969
WB-KAKDWIP
INC 49.8%won by 5.4%CPM 44.4%
What changed here
DerivedIndian National Congress held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 50.2% to 5.4%.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 23.8% — 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
60,513
Margin
3,266
5.40%
Candidates
4 contested · winner INC- 1HANSADHWAJ DHARAIndian National Congress · INC30,11449.8%
- 2HARISHIKESH MAITYCommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM26,84844.4%
- 3ANADI KUMAR BERALKD · LKD2,2963.8%
- 4MAMUD ALI MOLLANDF · NDF1,2552.1%
Since 1967
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- INC
- INC–CPM swing
- −44.8%
- INC share
- 73.5% → 49.8%
- CPM share
- 23.3% → 44.4%
- Turnout
- — → —