Constituency
209. Salbani
Community mirrorWest Bengal Assembly Election, 1969
WB-SALBANI
BAC 55.3%won by 25.1%INC 30.2%
What changed here
DerivedBAC held the seat; the winning margin widened from 9.8% to 25.1%.
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 85.6% of the vote between them, up from 70.8% — a tighter two-way contest.
- Safe seatBAC won by more than 25 points — a stronghold, not a contest.
- Multi-cornered3 candidates cleared 5% — a genuinely multi-cornered fight.
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
45,378
Margin
11,391
25.10%
Candidates
5 contested · winner BAC- 1AMULYA RATAN MAHATABAC · BAC25,11255.3%
- 2SUDHIR KUMAR GHOSALIndian National Congress · INC13,72130.2%
- 3RABULAL TUDUIndependent · IND3,7658.3%
- 4SAHAS ROY BIMAL KUMARLKD · LKD1,9984.4%
- 5MAHAPTRA SITALA PRASADHMS · HMS7821.7%
Since 1967
Derived- Winner then
- BAC
- Winner now
- BAC
- BAC–INC swing
- +15.3%
- BAC share
- 40.3% → 55.3%
- INC share
- 30.5% → 30.2%
- Turnout
- — → —