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Constituency

211. Kharagpur

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West Bengal Assembly Election, 1969

WB-KHARAGPUR

INC 54.8%won by 10.8%CPI 44.0%

What changed here

Derived

The seat changed hands: Communist Party of India (CPI) lost it to Indian National Congress (INC), which now leads by 10.8%.

  • INC vote shareINC went from 44.3% to 54.8% of the vote here (+10.5%).
  • Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 98.9% of the vote between them, up from 93.3% — a tighter two-way contest.

Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.

Electorate
not in source
Turnout
not in source
Valid votes
42,487
Margin
4,597
10.82%

Since 1967

Derived
Winner then
CPI
Winner now
INCflipped
INCCPI swing
+15.5%
INC share
44.3% 54.8%
CPI share
49.0% 44.0%
Turnout