Constituency
132. Bara Bazar
Community mirrorWest Bengal Assembly Election, 1969
WB-BARA-BAZAR
INC 55.5%won by 30.4%BJS 25.1%
What changed here
DerivedIndian National Congress held the seat; the winning margin widened from 17.5% to 30.4%.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 80.6% between them, down from 91.5% — the field split more ways.
- Safe seatIndian National Congress won by more than 25 points — a stronghold, not a contest.
- Multi-cornered3 candidates cleared 5% — a genuinely multi-cornered fight.
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
46,887
Margin
14,232
30.35%
Candidates
8 contested · winner INC- 1SARAOGI RAM KRISHNAIndian National Congress · INC26,01855.5%
- 2LAKHOTIA RAMNIWASBharatiya Jana Sangh · BJS11,78625.1%
- 3DHANDHANIA BIJOY KRISHNASamyukta Socialist Party · SSP7,93916.9%
- 4PANDEY RABISHANKERIndependent · IND4360.9%
- 5V.B. RAGHAVJI KUNDALIAIndependent · IND3560.8%
- 6YEAKUB ALI THANDERIndependent · IND1660.4%
- 7KANHAIA LAL PATHAKPraja Socialist Party · PSP1210.3%
- 8CHOPDAR NAGIRIndependent · IND650.1%
Since 1967
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- INC
- INC–BJS swing
- +12.9%
- INC share
- 54.5% → 55.5%
- BJS share
- 37.0% → 25.1%
- Turnout
- — → —