Constituency
198. Contai North
Community mirrorWest Bengal Assembly Election, 1969
WB-CONTAI-NORTH
PSP 58.2%won by 16.5%INC 41.8%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Indian National Congress (INC) lost it to Praja Socialist Party (PSP), which now leads by 16.5%.
- PSP vote sharePSP went from 42.5% to 58.2% of the vote here (+15.8%).
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 100.0% of the vote between them, up from 87.0% — 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
51,158
Margin
8,436
16.49%
Candidates
2 contested · winner PSP- 1SUBODH GOPAL GUCHHAITPraja Socialist Party · PSP29,79758.2%
- 2MAKHAN LAL DASIndian National Congress · INC21,36141.8%
Since 1967
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- PSPflipped
- PSP–INC swing
- +18.5%
- PSP share
- 42.5% → 58.2%
- INC share
- 44.5% → 41.8%
- Turnout
- — → —