Constituency
159. Sankrail
Community mirrorWest Bengal Assembly Election, 1969
WB-SANKRAIL
CPM 61.0%won by 23.7%INC 37.2%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Indian National Congress (INC) lost it to Communist Party of India (Marxist) (CPM), which now leads by 23.7%.
- CPM vote shareCPM went from 32.8% to 61.0% of the vote here (+28.1%).
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 98.2% of the vote between them, up from 83.6% — 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
50,827
Margin
12,064
23.74%
Candidates
3 contested · winner CPMSince 1967
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- CPMflipped
- CPM–INC swing
- +41.6%
- CPM share
- 32.8% → 61.0%
- INC share
- 50.7% → 37.2%
- Turnout
- — → —