Constituency
177. Balagarh
Community mirrorWest Bengal Assembly Election, 1969
WB-BALAGARH
CPM 60.4%won by 20.8%INC 39.6%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Indian National Congress (INC) lost it to Communist Party of India (Marxist) (CPM), which now leads by 20.8%.
- CPM vote shareCPM went from 45.1% to 60.4% of the vote here (+15.3%).
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 100.0% of the vote between them, up from 90.3% — 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
48,438
Margin
10,090
20.83%
Candidates
2 contested · winner CPMSince 1967
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- CPMflipped
- CPM–INC swing
- +20.9%
- CPM share
- 45.1% → 60.4%
- INC share
- 45.2% → 39.6%
- Turnout
- — → —