Constituency
140. Dhakuria
Community mirrorWest Bengal Assembly Election, 1969
WB-DHAKURIA
CPI 61.8%won by 23.6%INC 38.2%
What changed here
DerivedCommunist Party of India held the seat; the winning margin widened from 5.9% to 23.6%.
- Runner-up changedSecond place passed from Communist Party of India (Marxist) (CPM) to Indian National Congress (INC).
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 100.0% of the vote between them, up from 70.3% — 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
50,715
Margin
11,973
23.61%
Candidates
2 contested · winner CPI- 1SOMNATH LAHIRICommunist Party of India · CPI31,34461.8%
- 2DEBAPROSAD CHATTERJEEIndian National Congress · INC19,37138.2%
Since 1967
Derived- Winner then
- CPI
- Winner now
- CPI
- CPI–INC swing
- +15.2%
- CPI share
- 38.1% → 61.8%
- INC share
- 29.7% → 38.2%
- Turnout
- — → —