Constituency
168. Chanditala
Community mirrorWest Bengal Assembly Election, 1969
WB-CHANDITALA
IND 68.2%won by 36.4%INC 31.8%
What changed here
DerivedIndependent held the seat; the winning margin widened from 11.2% to 36.4%.
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 100.0% of the vote between them, up from 64.2% — a tighter two-way contest.
- Safe seatIndependent won by more than 25 points — a stronghold, not a 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
44,706
Margin
16,294
36.45%
Candidates
2 contested · winner IND- 1MOHAMED ABDUL LATIFIndependent · IND30,50068.2%
- 2AHIBHUSAN CHATTOPADHYAYIndian National Congress · INC14,20631.8%
Since 1967
Derived- Winner then
- IND
- Winner now
- IND
- IND–INC swing
- +25.3%
- IND share
- 37.7% → 68.2%
- INC share
- 26.5% → 31.8%
- Turnout
- — → —