Constituency
238. Bankura
Community mirrorWest Bengal Assembly Election, 1969
WB-BANKURA
CPI 58.3%won by 30.6%INC 27.7%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Indian National Congress (INC) lost it to Communist Party of India (CPI), which now leads by 30.6%.
- CPI vote shareCPI went from 30.8% to 58.3% of the vote here (+27.5%).
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 86.0% of the vote between them, up from 61.7% — 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
50,968
Margin
15,609
30.63%
Candidates
6 contested · winner CPI- 1BIRESWAR GHOSHCommunist Party of India · CPI29,71158.3%
- 2SATYANARAYAN MITRAIndian National Congress · INC14,10227.7%
- 3BIJOY KUMAR MANDALBharatiya Jana Sangh · BJS3,3816.6%
- 4NAMAI CHANDRA KUNDUHMS · HMS3,1906.3%
- 5GOKUL GAURILKD · LKD3380.7%
- 6AMITAVA SENGUPTAIndependent · IND2460.5%
Since 1967
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- CPIflipped
- CPI–INC swing
- +30.7%
- CPI share
- 30.8% → 58.3%
- INC share
- 30.9% → 27.7%
- Turnout
- — → —