Constituency
137. Kalighat
Community mirrorWest Bengal Assembly Election, 1969
WB-KALIGHAT
CPM 55.2%won by 10.4%INC 44.8%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Indian National Congress (INC) lost it to Communist Party of India (Marxist) (CPM), which now leads by 10.4%.
- CPM vote shareCPM went from 46.0% to 55.2% of the vote here (+9.2%).
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 100.0% of the vote between them, up from 93.3% — a tighter two-way 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
50,987
Margin
5,279
10.35%
Candidates
2 contested · winner CPM- 1SADHAN GUPTACommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM28,13355.2%
- 2BIVA MITRAIndian National Congress · INC22,85444.8%
Since 1967
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- CPMflipped
- CPM–INC swing
- +11.7%
- CPM share
- 46.0% → 55.2%
- INC share
- 47.3% → 44.8%
- Turnout
- — → —