Constituency
225. Jaipur
Community mirrorWest Bengal Assembly Election, 1969
WB-JAIPUR
INC 38.3%won by 0.4%LSS 38.0%
What changed here
DerivedIndian National Congress held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 14.8% to 0.4%.
- New challengerLSS (LSS) finished second with 38.0% — it did not contest here in 1967.
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 76.3% of the vote between them, up from 50.9% — 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
29,533
Margin
111
0.38%
Candidates
4 contested · winner INC- 1RAM KRISHNA MAHATOIndian National Congress · INC11,32338.3%
- 2ASHOKE CHOUDHURYLSS · LSS11,21238.0%
- 3PADMA LOCHAN MAHATOPraja Socialist Party · PSP4,99316.9%
- 4PRAMATHA NATH BAKSHIBharatiya Jana Sangh · BJS2,0056.8%
Since 1967
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- INC
- INC–LSS swing
- −32.5%
- INC share
- 32.9% → 38.3%
- LSS share
- 0.0% → 38.0%
- Turnout
- — → —