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Constituency

128. Cossipur

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West Bengal Assembly Election, 1969

WB-COSSIPUR

CPM 49.8%won by 0.4%INC 49.4%

What changed here

Derived

The seat changed hands: Indian National Congress (INC) lost it to Communist Party of India (Marxist) (CPM), which now leads by 0.4%.

  • CPM vote shareCPM went from 30.6% to 49.8% of the vote here (+19.2%).
  • Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 99.2% of the vote between them, up from 66.7% — a tighter two-way contest.

Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.

Electorate
not in source
Turnout
not in source
Valid votes
50,815
Margin
195
0.38%

Since 1967

Derived
Winner then
INC
Winner now
CPMflipped
CPMINC swing
+5.9%
CPM share
30.6% 49.8%
INC share
36.1% 49.4%
Turnout