Constituency
217. Gopiballavpur
Community mirrorWest Bengal Assembly Election, 1969
WB-GOPIBALLAVPUR
SSP 52.5%won by 12.5%INC 40.1%
What changed here
DerivedSamyukta Socialist Party held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 21.2% to 12.5%.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 8.1% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 92.6% between them, down from 100.0% — the field split more ways.
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
49,549
Margin
6,171
12.45%
Candidates
5 contested · winner SSP- 1KAR DHANANJOYSamyukta Socialist Party · SSP26,03152.5%
- 2SURENDRA NATH MAHATAIndian National Congress · INC19,86040.1%
- 3SAREN RATANIndependent · IND1,8733.8%
- 4CHARAN SINGHIndependent · IND1,2402.5%
- 5SADHU GOBINDA CHARANPBI · PBI5451.1%
Since 1967
Derived- Winner then
- SSP
- Winner now
- SSP
- SSP–INC swing
- −8.8%
- SSP share
- 60.6% → 52.5%
- INC share
- 39.4% → 40.1%
- Turnout
- — → —