Constituency
242. Indas
Community mirrorWest Bengal Assembly Election, 1969
WB-INDAS
BAC 56.5%won by 18.8%INC 37.6%
What changed here
DerivedBAC held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 37.3% to 18.8%.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 12.2% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 94.1% between them, down from 100.0% — the field split more ways.
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Electorate
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Turnout
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Valid votes
39,245
Margin
7,397
18.85%
Candidates
5 contested · winner BAC- 1ABANI KUMAR SAHABAC · BAC22,16156.5%
- 2SANATAN SANTRAIndian National Congress · INC14,76437.6%
- 3PAGAL CHANDRA MALIndependent · IND1,2943.3%
- 4GADADHAR DASNDF · NDF6981.8%
- 5SAHA DEBI PRASADBharatiya Jana Sangh · BJS3280.8%
Since 1967
Derived- Winner then
- BAC
- Winner now
- BAC
- BAC–INC swing
- −18.5%
- BAC share
- 68.7% → 56.5%
- INC share
- 31.3% → 37.6%
- Turnout
- — → —