Constituency
124. Panihati
Community mirrorWest Bengal Assembly Election, 1969
WB-PANIHATI
CPM 69.7%won by 40.9%INC 28.8%
What changed here
DerivedCommunist Party of India (Marxist) held the seat; the winning margin widened from 14.9% to 40.9%.
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 98.5% of the vote between them, up from 80.5% — a tighter two-way contest.
- Safe seatCommunist Party of India (Marxist) won by more than 25 points — a stronghold, not a 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
76,523
Margin
31,317
40.92%
Candidates
3 contested · winner CPM- 1G.K. BHATTACHARYYACommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM53,34669.7%
- 2SYAM SUNDAR BANERJEEIndian National Congress · INC22,02928.8%
- 3JAGDISH MAZUMDARNDF · NDF1,1481.5%
Since 1967
Derived- Winner then
- CPM
- Winner now
- CPM
- CPM–INC swing
- +26.0%
- CPM share
- 47.7% → 69.7%
- INC share
- 32.8% → 28.8%
- Turnout
- — → —