Constituency
186. Ghatal
Community mirrorWest Bengal Assembly Election, 1969
WB-GHATAL
CPM 63.6%won by 27.2%INC 36.4%
What changed here
DerivedCommunist Party of India (Marxist) held the seat; the winning margin widened from 11.9% to 27.2%.
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 100.0% of the vote between them, up from 76.4% — a tighter two-way contest.
- Safe seatCommunist Party of India (Marxist) 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
45,413
Margin
12,357
27.21%
Candidates
2 contested · winner CPMSince 1967
Derived- Winner then
- CPM
- Winner now
- CPM
- CPM–INC swing
- +15.4%
- CPM share
- 44.1% → 63.6%
- INC share
- 32.2% → 36.4%
- Turnout
- — → —