Constituency
125. Kamarhati
Community mirrorWest Bengal Assembly Election, 1969
WB-KAMARHATI
CPM 65.0%won by 30.9%INC 34.1%
What changed here
DerivedCommunist Party of India (Marxist) held the seat; the winning margin widened from 14.6% to 30.9%.
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 99.2% of the vote between them, up from 88.1% — 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
66,275
Margin
20,504
30.94%
Candidates
3 contested · winner CPM- 1RADHIKA RANJAN BANERJEECommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM43,11165.0%
- 2AJOY GHOSALIndian National Congress · INC22,60734.1%
- 3AMIYO MULLICKNDF · NDF5570.8%
Since 1967
Derived- Winner then
- CPM
- Winner now
- CPM
- CPM–INC swing
- +16.4%
- CPM share
- 51.3% → 65.0%
- INC share
- 36.8% → 34.1%
- Turnout
- — → —